Friday, February 03, 2012

The Mystery of Appearance

Haunch of Venison 3/2/12

Hockney
Bacon
Freud
Auerbach
Kossoff
Patrick Caulfield
Richard Hamilton
Michael Andrews
Euan Uglow
Coldstream

Auerbach
Gerda Boehm 71/3
Something Oriental about it, in the colouring

Andrews
The Thames at low tide 94/5
Bare canvas for exposed beach
River beachcoming with D

Kossoff
Willesden Junction Summer No. 1
66
Stylistic relation to Auerbach - friends
Monet's London images - Impressionists' railways

Auerbach
Primrose Hill, Winter Sunshine 62/4
Colour palette, subtle

Kossoff
Seated Woman 2
59
Massively thick paint, sculptural, subtleties of colour

Bacon
Pope 1 - study after pope innocent X by Velazquez 51
Vortex of foreground (curtain?) v box

Hockney
Man in a Museum 62
Artifice of art - bare canvas - brushstrokes on shelf period

Kossoff
Nude autumn morning 71
Simplicity within myriad details/drips


Freud
Girl on a Turkish sofa 66
Bacon-like flesh (feet)

Auerbach
Reclining figure 72 *
So few strokes to capture the figure

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