Grotesque, shock value, mutilated-deformed subjects, Rubenesque (fleshy women), human realism and sensual-psychological affect in figurative oil paintings……..

 

Jenny Saville, British art disciple of Lucian Frued and Peter Paul Rubens…a modern day figurative oil painter

“Whether you think you like Ruebens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art”….Jenny Saville

 

Juxtaposition of subjects to create proverbial and complex figurative art………..!

David Salle…..Post modern artist renowned for his cynical, complex, somewhat pornographic, representational, cultural, historic artworks. His rhetoric juxtaposes images from different sources into original artwork to derive different interpretations from the audience. The paintings might seem chaotic or messy but there is an underneath method and message to his madness.

 

LUCIAN FREUD: GRANDSON OF SIGMUD FREUD…..Notable PAINTER-Realist artist

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Known for his psychological impact on the  viewer through his paintings. Expressionism(art to evoke emotions), surrealism(art with absurd juxapostion),  realist art, organic painting naked subjects, thickly brushstroked paintings(impasto), exaggerated body positions, portrait art are some of the art categories that describes his work. His stark and revealing paintings of friends and intimates, splayed nude in his studio, recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art. His nude paintings had a factor exaggerated lumpy body mass and showed expressions of  fatigue, distress and torpor from overtly long hours of paintings of live subjects  also depicted in arresting close-up. His live painting session revolved around deriving a relationship between the painter and subject to derive real emotions to express on his paintings. His paintings lacked fully saturated colors that derived emotions that he tried to avoid. Subjectivity and intensity of his work has always set him apart from the sober tradition characterized by British figurative post-war art. As an emerging painter, Freud was heavily influenced by British artist Francis Bacon’s disruptive smear and portrayal of the innate perversity of the human existence. Like Bacon, Freud succeeded in turning his models’ bodies into a painterly residue, recognizably human but still grossly material.