Recline 1 (Little Elephant), 2002 - Johannes Kahrs
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Francis Bacon, Study of a Dog, 1952
From the Tate Collection:
Bacon used a variety of strategies to represent what one commentator described as ‘the anguish of contemporary life’. Here we see his use of animals to evoke aggression, vulnerability or both. The image of the dog derived from Eadward Muybridge’s time-lapse photographs of animals in motion. Bacon smeared the paint to suggest what seems to be demented movement. In contrast the setting, depicted with an economy of means, was based on the sea front in Monte Carlo, where he had lived from 1946 to 1950.
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video artist and sculptor
Why Frank Auerbach?
The style stems from David Bomberg’s teaching (he and fellow St Martin’s student Leon Kossoff were taught by David Bomberg from 1947 until 1953) - a drawing technique that encourages seeing and drawing in large blocks, looking for structure and shape instead of a classic drawing style which focuses of the outline and the quality of the line. Normally famous for the thickness of the paint applied, this is missing the point, its in the looking - that is the main theme.
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Excerpt from wikipedia - “Although sometimes described as expressionistic, Auerbach is not an expressionist painter. His work is not concerned with finding a visual equivalent to an emotional or spiritual state that characterised the expressionist movement, rather it deals with the attempt to resolve the experience of being in the world in paint. In this the experience of the world is seen as essentially chaotic with the role of the artist being to impose an order upon that chaos and record that order in the painting. This ambition with the paintings results in Auerbach developing intense relationships with particular subjects, particularly the people he paints, but also the location of his cityscape subjects. Speaking on this in 2001 he stated: “If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.”
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This simple statement belies the intensity of the relationship that develops between Auerbach and his subjects, which results in an astonishing desire to produce an image the artist considers ‘right’. This leads Auerbach to paint an image and then scrape it off the canvas at the end of each day, repeating this process time and again, not primarily to create a layering of images but because of a sense of dissatisfaction with the image leading him to try to paint it again.”
source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Auerbach
