Walt Louderback Art

Cubist Market Scene with 10 portraits
The frenetic pace of a busy French market is brilliantly and creatively interpreted by Walt Louderback in his own version of Cubism. Louderback creates a circular composition that integrates his stylized figures while they are performing their daily tasks. The figures are reduced to flat interlocking shapes which artfully coalesce to form a whole.
with a desaturated palette. At first view, they seem abstract but with further study their identities and behaviors are revealed. In time, the viewer solves the Louderback puzzle and is delighted doing it.
The cast of characters clockwise are :
1: In the lower-left, there is the flower girl with 6 bouquets of flowers of different colors and shapes. 2: Above her is a manual laborer with his heavy cargo strapped to his back. 3: In the upper left corner, we see the cropped head of a baker with a basket of fresh rolls. 4: To the immediate right of the baker, there is a portly policeman supervising. 5: Above his right shoulder is another flower girl. 6: To her right is a French nun...

Masterfully designed and rendered complex Cubist figural work. Work is signed lower left and it is not framed.