Værslev's work navigates between
different painterly traditions, and demonstrates how painting continues to offer the potential for effective personal expression while remaining a sober and prosaic locus for painted signs on a surface.
By not painting from life, Doig and most mid-career painters of the late 20th and 21st century have, it seems to me, a fundamentally
different relationship with modernist
painterly tradition from the generation above them — Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, even David Hockney.