Profile painting

michael malm art - backlit idea May 2019

Müller produced at least five paintings of a model whose name he recorded only as “Nasleh.” No further information has been found about her identity. Such studies done from life were intended to serve as preparatory works for larger paintings or book illustrations. In this portrait, and another at the Walters showing the same woman (WAM 37.1013), Müller experiments with different angles that reveal subtly different aspects of Nasleh’s profile as well as backgrounds that either suggest or…

Müller produced at least five paintings of a model whose name he recorded only as “Nasleh.” No further information has been found about her identity. Such studies done from life were intended to serve as preparatory works for larger paintings or book illustrations. In this portrait, and another at the Walters showing the same woman (WAM 37.1012), Müller experiments with different angles that reveal subtly different aspects of Nasleh’s profile as well as backgrounds that either suggest or…

Michael Malm: "Painting for me is about expressing a feeling or emotion through visual means. Perhaps it is the beauty of light moving across the form

Crushing on the paintings of Hélène Delmaire.