http://www.squarecylinder.com/2010/02/luc-tuymans-sfmoma/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.squarecylinder.com/2010/02/luc-tuymans-sfmoma/comment-page-1/#comment-3417 Rear View Mirror: 2010 | SquareCylinder.com Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:19:54 +0000 http://www.squarecylinder.com/?p=3674#comment-3417 [...] Luc Tuymans @ SFMOMA.   Belgian painter Luc Tuymans has breathed new energy into painting by pretending to drain the life out of it.  His paintings, which are short on information, long on implication, parade their emptiness.  But they also pack a punch.  Like a postmodern Marlow, Tuymans plies the river of civilization’s discontents. He’s armed with a paintbrush, but not much hope for humanity. Tuymans is a history painter.  His paintings of the Holocaust, Flemish nationalism, Belgian colonialism and post-9/11 America are based on photography, television, cinema, and to a lesser extent, on art history. But unlike the artist to which he is most often compared – Gerhard Richter — Tuymans filters his synthesis of art history through his experience of making movies.  Read the full story…  [...] [...] Luc Tuymans @ SFMOMA.   Belgian painter Luc Tuymans has breathed new energy into painting by pretending to drain the life out of it.  His paintings, which are short on information, long on implication, parade their emptiness.  But they also pack a punch.  Like a postmodern Marlow, Tuymans plies the river of civilization’s discontents. He’s armed with a paintbrush, but not much hope for humanity. Tuymans is a history painter.  His paintings of the Holocaust, Flemish nationalism, Belgian colonialism and post-9/11 America are based on photography, television, cinema, and to a lesser extent, on art history. But unlike the artist to which he is most often compared – Gerhard Richter — Tuymans filters his synthesis of art history through his experience of making movies.  Read the full story…  [...]

]]> http://www.squarecylinder.com/2010/02/luc-tuymans-sfmoma/comment-page-1/#comment-231 DeWitt Cheng Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:11:52 +0000 http://www.squarecylinder.com/?p=3674#comment-231 Terrific review, David. History painter sounds just right, but a history painter for the media age. Thanks for the info on his personal history' his choices of subject matter and treatment seem to flow from that, though he has had the courage not to look away. It would be easy to trivialize or exploit his momentous themes (as Kiefer was once accused of doing, and others, IMHO, have done, all too cynically), but, clearly, Tuymans is for real. Condi looks a bit like Laura...... Terrific review, David.
History painter sounds just right, but a history painter for the media age. Thanks for the info on his personal history’ his choices of subject matter and treatment seem to flow from that, though he has had the courage not to look away. It would be easy to trivialize or exploit his momentous themes (as Kiefer was once accused of doing, and others, IMHO, have done, all too cynically), but, clearly, Tuymans is for real.
Condi looks a bit like Laura……

]]> http://www.squarecylinder.com/2010/02/luc-tuymans-sfmoma/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Connie Goldman Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:47:27 +0000 http://www.squarecylinder.com/?p=3674#comment-230 Good review....I can't wait to see the show. Good review….I can’t wait to see the show.

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