Have we reached peak painting?
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 11, 2025
Thriving discourse In 2023, the year before he died, Frank Auerbach described how he came to paint and draw in the 1940s and 50s, at the tail end of Modernism. “I It’s so close and fleshy and physical and drippy and liquid and unwieldy and leaky. Others want earnestness. Some want romance. The medium itself is close to hand.”
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