12/15/2023 0 Comments Contemporary art portraits paintings![]() I respect the movement, I can’t stand the paint. They say he paints like the Masters, but to put his paintings beside a “Master” Wiley’s portraits look like Disney cartoons. Kehinde Wiley – Yay for the man, boo for the paintings.Now… it sounds like she’s painting pretty? I need to check this out. ![]() I lost some enthusiasm with the gruesome series that followed, but I did not lose the love, and she still has my great respect. I’m sure it’s no surprise to you that these were a major influence on my own work. ![]() (Irony alert: It’s hard.) Saville later did a series of figures in movement, expressed by multiple arms and overlapping figurative parts. It’s pretty simple, all you have to do is put the right color in the right place, only not exactly, and you get to leave some parts as informal and unselfconscious process marks. Thank you, Saville!!! As a painter, I’m very attracted to this style of painting in which layered and broken colorfields (juicy color swaths) give contemporary twists on classical painting. Finally, people with female bodies could be as brut as men in the pictures. They weren’t flaunting sexy, they weren’t idealized or small, they were enormous layers of direct, ample, unpretty flesh.
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