Rugby

Like many of Boulanger’s works, “Rugby” used her familiar subject matter of children playing, while using her subjects to create a beautiful and interesting composition of shapes and colors. Here, Bounlanger has not only created geometric shapes and patterns in the clothing and backgrounds, but has arranged her figures in a triangulated formation as they leap for the ball. This configuration allows the eye to travel down the cascade of tiny hands and tangled legs, grounding the viewer in the bold red and green floor below.