"A luminous loneliness: reveries from Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert, rival of Ensor and exponent of Nietzsche and PoeAlthough often associated with Belgian symbolism, Léon Spilliaert, largely self-taught as a painter, demonstrated a peculiarly individual style. He was born in the coastal city of Ostend, and created many of his most radical works there. An introvert and insomniac who suffered from poor health as a youth, Spilliaert wande ..."
"Famed for his focused observation of nature, Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (c. 13951441) studied fauna and flora in their natural environment and under carefully chosen lighting conditions, and then achieved a breathtaking and convincing realism in his paintings. Each panel is a collection of minuscule details rendered with superb clarity from foreground to backgroundor at least that is the impression at first glance. As this book reve ..."
"Luc Tuymans is one of the most influential figurative painters working today.Born in 1958 and based in Antwerp, he has exhibited since 1985, emerginginternationally in the early 1990s as an artist who has addressed not just thecontinuation of painting's relevance but subjects as difficult to represent asthe long-lasting traumas of war, colonialism, and everyday violence. Tu ..."
LucTuymans Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume 3: 2007-2018 by Eva Meyer-Hermann, LucTuymans Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2019 by David Zwirner Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-300-24742-8, ISBN: 0-300-24742-7
"A masterful survey of Luc Tuymans’s most recent works, remaking painting as a medium for our times The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is widely recognized as having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s; his career has shaped the possibilities and cultural presence of the medium. The works in this third volume of his catalogue raisonné, covering the past decade, show Tuymans at his most virtuosic, subtly but provocat ..."
LucTuymans Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume 2: 1995-2006 by Eva Meyer-Hermann, LucTuymans Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 2019 by David Zwirner Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-300-24467-0, ISBN: 0-300-24467-3
"Belgian painter Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) has, over the course of his remarkable career, created a distinctive vernacular, and is widely credited with having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s. This second volume in a planned three-volume catalogue raisonné of Tuymans’s paintings surveys nearly two hundred works, featuring some of his most iconic canvases, including from his seminal exhibition Mwana Kitoko: Beautiful White ..."
"Tuymans' monochromatic palette and his choice of subject matter - domestic interiors, commonplace objects and family portraits - link painting with post-war filmmaking and amateur photography. The sources of images on many of his canvases give his work a brooding violence. Although modest in scale and sensitive in execution, his work is powerful in its haunting evocation of lost lives and repressed histories. In general, Tuymans' works ..."
"Luc Tuymans is one of today's most widely admired painters, a continuation of the great tradition of Northern European painting and an enduring influence on younger and emerging artists. As a European child of the 1950s, his relationship to painting is inevitably structured by television, cinema and by the lingering effects of World War II; more recent historical preoccupations have included the dramatic turn of world events post-9/11. ..."
"Since she claimed to revive “Victorian values" and graciously accepted
comparison with Queen Victoria, I sought inspiration from Pre-Raphaelite frames
in the Tate Gallery's nineteenth-century painting collection. One aspect of Taking
Stock is still quite "unfinished”: the role of the Saatchi brothers. Maurice Saatchi
has been elevated to the House of Lords and, as a former cochairman of the
party, he is still involved with Tory pol ..."
"Belgian artist, Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is considered one of the most significant and influential contemporary artists working today. His work fuses the traditions of old master Flemish and Spanish still-life genre painting with a late 20th century sensibility. His subjects range from major historical events, such as the Holocaust or the politics of the Belgian Congo, to the inconsequential and banal, such as a pillow or a cake. Tuymans h ..."
"After a century in which the lexicon of artists' materials expanded from the classic oil, canvas, stone and plaster to include photography, film, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has finally swung back. A new generation of artists--as well as some who never abandoned figurative painting in the first place--is relishing the solitary, slow, subtle set of processes involved in not just painting, but painting people. T ..."
"The publication includes an insightful discussion between Luc Tuymans and Ziba Ardalan, full color plates of all the works in the exhibition, and installation views at Parasol unit galleries.0Artist(s): Francis Alÿs, Raoul De Keyser, Luc ..."
"Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is one of today's most widely admired painters, a continuation of the great tradition of Northern European painting and an enduring influence on younger and emerging artists. First published in hardback for the artist's first full-scale American survey in 2009, and now available in paperback, this is without question the authoritative publication on Tuymans. It features approximately 75 key works from 1978 to the ..."
"Beginning with 'Gilles de Binche' (Antwerp, 2005) and concluding with 'Against the Day' (Brussels, Moscow and Malmo, 2009-10), acclaimed painter Luc Tuymans produced a landmark suite of seven thematically linked bodies of work. Their meta-narrative, which traces the philosophical and psychic roots of contemporary civilization, weaves together a range of photographic source images, from St Peter's to Disneyland to Big Brother, that toget ..."
"Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) has been a primary force in reenergizing painting over the past 15 years, creating a varied and remarkable body of work. His paintings deal with complex subjects such as Christ's passion and the Holocaust, as well as child abuse and Belgian colonialism in the Congo. Using a restricted palette of bleached-out colors and giving his paintings a seemingly aged, cracked patina, Tuymans imbues everyday obj ..."
"The surface of Tuymans' small paintings are monochromatic and frail, as if recuperating from a long illness. In the traditions of Flemish and Spanish still-life genre painting, they represent domestic scenes or commonplace objects. They resonate, however, with a sense of the uncanny. Hovering beneath the surface of Tuymans' quiet paintings are deep-seated anxieties that rise to the surface in his depictions of faces or parts of the body ..."
"Widely credited with having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s, Belgian painter Luc Tuymans continues to expand our understanding of the medium. Sourcing imagery from books, magazines, lms, the internet, and increasingly his own iPhone photos, Tuymans’s unique selection of subject matter reveals his fascination with moral complexities.Exploring diverse and sensitive topics, many of which include historic references fro ..."