Since 1985, Szczesny has been making images that integrate photos taken in a variety of settings with
figure studies rendered in his characteristically expressive style.
Not exact matches
For many years the doyen of painting in the city was Ernest Linder, who gained national attention with his precisely
rendered close - ups of trees, plants and
figure studies.
These are accompanied by a suite of early paintings that reflect Golub's
study of antiquity, a group of unsettling portraits of the Brazilian dictator Ernesto Geisel, and works on paper that represent subjects of longstanding interest to the artist, from mercenaries, interrogators, and the victims of violence to political
figures, nudes, and animals, all of them
rendered in the raw, visceral style for which he is justly celebrated.
An early
study of a seated nude demonstrates not only Still's ability to
render forms accurately but also his attentiveness to the planes of light and shadow that define the
figure.
Sanditz comments: «Sometimes I make [the paintings] on location... And then I also sometimes work on the
studies when I'm trying to
figure out how to resolve something... Obviously memory and imagination are both a part of it — there are no faithful photographic
renderings in the paintings, not that photographs are faithful either, but there's obviously a lot of interpretation and exaggeration in the work.
But perhaps his most significant works on paper were his
studies of the human
figure, sensitively
rendered in fields of empty space.
The exhibition will also include early Golub paintings that reflect his
study of antiquity, his series of unsettling portraits of the Brazilian dictator Ernesto Geisel, and works on paper
rendered in a raw, visceral style depicting subjects from political
figures and victims of violence to nude forms and animals.