The first retrospective of Edward Hopper in Paris is also one of the most ambitious ever, a look at the artist “in all his complexity” as a painter of light and architecture as well as the loneliness of modern life.
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American painter John Kacere began his career as an abstract artist, inspired by the likes of Joan Miró and Paul Klee. In mid-life, in 1963, he became a completely different artist, not just figurative but hyper-real. He began painting women with such technical skill and in such painstaking detail that it simply looks like photography – but only beautiful women and only their crotches, thighs and butts. He kept at it for over 30 years, until his death in 1999.
The light fantastic
Kristin Baker fills larger-than-life works with exploding shards of light and color
“I want paint to work as flesh,” said Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund. His fleshy masterpieces made him the world’s most famous portrait artist.