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Portrait Library Research

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Malala Andrialavidrazana and Délio Jasse; A comparison. Based in Paris, Malala Andrialavidrazana's work revolves around the exploration of culture and nature. Her work comprises of vast collections of art from various cultures and destinations Andrialavidrazana has been to. There is also an undeniable influence of cartography in her work, which relates to her background in architecture shown through her work as it has a structural nature to it. In addition, Andrialavidrazana explains architecture as the construction of new ideas (Libsekal and Recasens, 2018) which I believe is her explaining subtly how repressing culture prevents beneficial change and improvement to humanity. I also easily saw that her choice of colours were very earthy/natural, but still vivid, demonstrating the vibrancy in the African and Asian cultures she explores. Blend between western and southern worlds by showing a clear conflict between colour, pattern, subject. This is shown by the aesthetic of the im