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.
Not exact matches
And therein lies the paradox and the multiple readings that extend
from the oeuvre: Morley's canvases are rooted in
tradition, in the
painterly sense, but resolutely contemporary in terms of bravura and the splicing together of images.
I Refuse to be Invisible emerges
from the
painterly tradition of Renoir's La Moulin de la Galette, 1876 (Musée d'Orsay), as Akunyili Crosby echoes the
traditions of African culture in the Pop vocabulary of Robert Rauschenberg's solvent transfer works.
Her graphic works, objects, paintings and installations explore in a processual, serial and cyclic manner various themes and working means,
from the «60s - «80s experimental, conceptualist graphics to the more
tradition - oriented
painterly approach embraced by her after 1990.
Hannah is a self - described «idiosyncratic» painter, having emerged improbably
from New York's punk 1970s demimonde as a figurative artist obsessed with
painterly technique and single - mindedly focused on reviving the narrative
tradition in painting.
In Untitled (1958), Chu Teh - Chun conflates the Chinese landscape painting
tradition with the free spirit of Art Informel and Western abstraction; while in Bangkok III (2013), Andreas Gursky depicts the Chao Phraya as a dark, reflective flow, conjuring a lineage of
painterly depictions of water,
from the cascading riverbanks of Song dynasty landscape paintings to Claude Monet's Nymphéas.
The Lisson Gallery exhibition presents for the first time a new series of earth works of varied formats: table sculptures modelling micro and macro-landscapes, wall and floor sculptures evoking the natural forms of rock and coral, and works on canvas coated with pigments mined
from the earth in a gritty take both on
painterly traditions and on Kapoor's own earlier pigment sculptures and void forms.