His stylistic innovations, alongside his contemporaries, would alter the course of art and inspire generations. Henri Matisse’s remarkable and varied career spanned over six decades and within that time he became one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. “Éperlans” (Smelts), 1920 (Executed in Étretat) The painting displays a bright summer’s day, with a buttery yellow carpet of primrose flowers sweeping across the grass, above which bold crimson and verdant green zig zags express the swaying trees on Primrose Hill. I’ve been wandering around these streets for so long that I have become attached to them, and as fond of them as people are of their pets.’ Primrose Hill, Summer (1968) is a dynamic composition sculpted from sumptuous, gestural impasto using successive sweeps of the brush and scrapes of the palette knife, to work and rework the surface. As Auerbach explained ‘This part of London is my world. The park at Primrose Hill, near Auerbach’s studio, is one of the artist’s favourite motifs and one he returns to time and time again, loyally painting it through the seasons and weathers. This is seen in the realistic depiction of an imperfect figure, the sensitivity to flesh and self-awareness, which coupled with Valdon’s radiant palette and precise black outlines offers an enchanting truth.įrank Auerbach moved to Mornington Crescent in 1952 and has rarely left the area since, apart from his almost weekly visits to the National Gallery. The unapologetic nude, reclining in a pose reminiscent of Titian’s Venus of Urbino, takes on a portrait-like quality.
Valadon would often paint friends and family and ‘Nu allonge sur en canape’ (1916) likely depicts Gaby, who worked as the artist’s housekeeper. Valadon learned swiftly from the painters around her, becoming an artist in her own right and the first self-taught woman to exhibit at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Growing up in Montmartre, the bohemian quarter of Paris, Suzanne Valadon turned to waitressing, nannying and was even a circus performer to support herself – though a fall from a trapeze led her to model for artists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. “Nu Allongé sur un canapé (Reclining nude on a divan)”, 1916 These often processed foods from around the world reflect on our modern global society, our consumerism, our reliance on fast food, our health and our wealth, or lack thereof. In Tyson’s photorealist ‘Still Life with White Carbs’ where we might expect to see an abundance of fruits, flowers, or meat we are met with pies, breads, chips, and pastries. In the original vanitas paintings, objects such as skulls or decaying fruit would symbolise the inevitability of death, while items from instruments to jewels would reflect what brought pleasure during life.
‘Still Life with White Carbs’ (2011) is inspired by the Dutch 16th Century still life tradition and plays on the idea of symbolism with a candid humour. Tyson continually challenges what constitutes reality using a wide variety of materials through a multitude of styles, displaying immense artistry and variation.
Keith Tyson is a Turner Prize winning British Artist who incorporates systems of logic, scientific methodology and chance into his work.
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