Art Experiment with Luc Tuymans

I like to work of painter Luc Tuymans, who “makes extensive use of techniques from photography, television and film, such as cropping, framing, sequencing and (sometimes extreme) close-ups. His palette usually tends toward monochrome. Subjects of his paintings range from the historic, for example covering the Holocaust or colonial politics in Belgian Congo, to the very banal, depicting everyday objects. Some of his paintings represent abstract emotions.” – Wikipedia

This is an interesting experiment, but I think says more about how we filter out images during our day. I don’t think it says much, if anything about art appreciation or recognition. Everyday we are bombarded with more images and information than my grandfather’s generation could imagine. We have learned “not to see”

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