Influenced by Picasso’s period of cubism, and surrealism and De Kooning’s abstract expressionism, Martha paints biomorphic shapes. Martha is great at ambiguously blending figure and ground in her pictures while dismembering, re-assembling and distorting her figures in the process.
In this painting, the man celebrates the woman's beauty, curves, warmth, while she happily models her new earrings, and flaunts her womanhood. This is the power of femininity.
