His brittle greeting - card style and indifference to paint are apparent here in works representing some of his best - known series:
flayed figures, strutting roosters, scary clowns, stingrays and tarot - card skeletons in Renaissance dress.
Bacon thought about Soutine a lot, or so we're told by «Soutine / Bacon» at Helly Nahmad Gallery, an intense pairing of Soutine's still lifes, landscapes and portraits with Bacon's caged, half -
flayed figures.
One of the latter is in what might be termed his «
flayed figure» style and depicts an execution, the executioner's hat suggesting a member of Franco's fascist guard.
Your new show consists of one work — a billboard of sorts, depicting various jellyfish, a seated woman garbed all in white with her head cropped out of the picture plane and another disembodied
flayed figure holding a vacuum cleaner.
Not exact matches
A
figure labeled Muscle Man stands upright,
flayed bare and proudly dangling his full cloak of skin from one hand.
When I started this post, I did so
figuring I'd be
flaying Lamb over how she viewed used bookstores.
In the early 60s the human
figure enters the work, but it is often interred in the blasted landscape or, later in the 70s it is
flayed and skeletal.
His
figures, scratched roughly into the canvas, appear achingly corporeal, almost
flayed.
In 1972, de Kooning made several
figures related to the paintings that immediately preceded his work with sculpture, such as Cross-legged
Figure (1972), a bronze figure twisted around a central axis with its limbs flayed out
Figure (1972), a bronze
figure twisted around a central axis with its limbs flayed out
figure twisted around a central axis with its limbs
flayed outwards.
He created enigmatic archaic
figures, as in an untitled stone sculpture (1985; Canberra, N.G.) depicting a male carrying a horn - shaped vessel, while such works as the painting
Flayed (1986; Canberra, N.G.) exemplify his preoccupation with the themes of death and sacrifice.
He created enigmatic archaic
figures, as in an untitled stone sculpture (1985) depicting a male carrying a horn - shaped vessel, while such works as the painting
Flayed (1986) exemplify his preoccupation with the themes of death and sacrifice.
In the early 60s the human
figure enters the work, but is often interred in the blasted landscape or, later in the 70s it is
flayed and skeletal.