Untitled (Abstracted Figure)
Contemporary abstract-figurative study
Digital artwork, 2026
Pieter Lategan
Quiet Monumentalism is an emerging painterly language I am developing to explore restrained composition alongside monumental presence. The work prioritises stillness, inward posture, and psychological gravity over narrative or symbolic explanation.
Rather than expressive or illustrative figuration, Quiet Monumentalism focuses on how bodies occupy space: weight distribution, spinal curve, tilt, and balance. Figures appear calm yet charged, inviting prolonged engagement rather than immediate interpretation.
My methodology draws on historical figural structure while remaining firmly contemporary and ethical. References are used strictly as positional studies, allowing each final work to exist as an original, authored painting.
Quiet Monumentalism offers an alternative to spectacle-driven visual culture, proposing silence, restraint, and presence as forms of authority.
- Pieter Lategan 3 January 2026
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