Repeatedly drawing the same sitters from among his circle of close friends, Auerbach conveys his subjects with truth, tenderness and empathy, getting to the very heart of them
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Royal Academy of Arts, London, through 12 December.
’s career is celebrated at the Royal Academy in all the ways in which this institution excels best. Firstly, its rooms are ...
Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954–2001
Royal Academy, London
The paintings on show at the RA have an effect that it would have been impossible to anticipate; the gran...
... the works, depicting Freud, Francis Bacon, Michael Andrews and Frank Auerbach, and inspired by John Deakin’s well-known photograph of the School of London painters lunch...
... about postwar abstraction, and in the British context, the figurative painters David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach hold more non-specialist currency. Intentiona...
... deep, or really light, using it in big strokes without it muddying. You can be quite distinctive but also abstract and it really helped me think about painting in terms of...
... war, he studied in London at St Martin’s School of Art (1949-52), where he met Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, and then at the Royal College of Art (1952-55). In 1955, ...
... for his London landscapes – like Frank Auerbach, the building sites, railways and gardens of north London were his subject. There are Kossoff’s powerful portraits too ...
... existentially minded milieu of Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, then the Technicolor candy kingdom of swinging London. One photograph shows partygoers lolli...
... different paintings: Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1888) (from the National Gallery) and Frank Auerbach’s Mornington Crescent, Summer Morning II (2004) (from the Ben ...
... impasto is often used to create thickness – witness the works of Frank Auerbach or Anselm Kiefer, where the paint forms a crust protruding out of the canvas – Spallett...
... lines and pockmarked concrete, the Scars themed room is particularly powerful, filled with earth-toned, ruined landscapes by Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, as well as Gu...
... artists Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff – provided a crucial whetstone for Metzger in terms of clarifying his own direction. Among items shown within the vitrines in the...
... earlier work is currently on show at the group exhibition Tales from the Colony Rooms: Art and Bohemia, London (until 20 December 2020), which features the work of Frank A...
... as one of Britain’s most important abstract painters. Yet despite being a contemporary of Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Bridget Riley, Whishaw remains a peripheral fi...
... the work of a painter whose teaching was formative for other celebrated British artists such as Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach. I was disappointed to discover that the ex...
... show is full of recent paintings, which Frank Auerbach has told him are his most original yet. He talks about his artistic practice, the influence of his mother’s work a...
... (1954). Now painting standing up at an easel, he felt freed up from the restrictions of sitting. He also looked to his fellow figurative painters Frank Auerbach and Franci...
... Piper to Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff and Ben Johnson, this is a most impressive show. With the earliest dated works, Old St Paul’s Diptych (1616) by Gipkin and London S...
... 1950s, alongside Frank Auerbach and David Hockney.
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While still a student, she met the, older, already established, and married, artist, Victor Willing. Their ...
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