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| Soutine, Carcass of Beef, oil on canvas |
GREAT Soutine show aptly titled FLESH at The Jewish Museum, NYC running through September 16th. Chaim Soutine is a major 20th-century artist who I consider a ghostly mentor. As a painting student, I constantly looked at his work feeling the force of his tension with paint - like an elastic band about to snap - imagining his malleable body slashing away at the canvas with visceral intensity.
Whenever I view Soutine's work I intuit deep inside my person the pulling and scraping of paint; the distortion of an image to make a painting that mirrors the raw impalement of the flesh.
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| Soutine, Still Life With RayFish, oil/canvas |
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| Soutine, The Great Pheasant, oil/canvas, 1926/27 |
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| Detail: Soutine, The Great Pheasant, oil/canvas, 1926/27 |
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| Soutine: The Salmon, oil/canvas |
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| Detail: Soutine, The Salmon, oil/canvas |
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| Soutine, White Duck, oil/canvas, 1925 |
This small exhibition of still-lives contained images of slabs of beef, twisted and wrung chicken heads, fish heads, and hares with anthropomorphic forks writhing on the plate ready to penetrate the hapless creature.
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| Soutine, Hare With Forks, oil/canvas, 1924 |
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| Detail: Soutine, Hare With Forks, oil/canvas, 1924 |
Ahhhh I loved the show!
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