Donald Sultan’s signature large-scale paintings are characterized by a rich iconography that merges provocative objects, fruits and flowers set against an unsettling either black or white background. His production incorporates basic geometric and organic forms with a formal purity that is both subtle and monumental, reducing them to the utmost schematization. Although primarily classified as a still lifes, the artist maintains that his works are first and foremost abstract. This colour silkscreen with enamel inks and-tar-like texture on 4-ply museum board represents Sultan´s iconic ephemeral flowers – the perfect example of synthesis between the natural and abstract typical to his work.
“ Most of my ideas were to put imagery back into abstract painting. Some of the ones that look the most abstract are actually the most realistic. „