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The Myriad Motives of Men
2014
Gesture, clothing and expression suggest biographies the artist deliberately withholds.
Artist field note
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
She paints people who never existed - and gives them lives we can almost remember.
The five in one idea
Her fictional portraits expand who can inhabit the history of painting without requiring biography, symbolism or explanation.