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| R.B. Kitaj WEJ (After Auerbach) 1991 oil and charcoal on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Francis Bacon Study for a Portrait 1991 oil and pastel on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Justin Mortimer Portrait of Harold Pinter 1992 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| John Kirby Ghost 1994 oil on board Yale Center for British Art |
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| Chantal Joffe Untitled (No. 1) 1995-96 oil and gesso on board Southbank Centre, London |
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| Kevin Sinnott Running away with the Hairdresser 1995 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff (Wales) |
"Paintings are not propositions: they do not take the form of image-sentences. They are not even like propositions. That is, they do not aim to make statements or ask questions or even, precisely, to seek assent. They are best not seen, it follows, as strings of individual image-elements or phonemes, arranged according to some overall grammar, out of which a governing meaning is generated for the array as a whole – maybe a complex or ambiguous one, but nonetheless a meaning derived from a knowable lexicon and a set of combinatory or semantic rules. Naturally a painting 'takes a view' of things; it adopts an attitude to them; it discriminates and prioritizes, putting a small world in order. But this is not the order of the linguistic. It is an ordering of things more open and centrifugal – more non-committal – than grammar can almost ever countenance."
– T.J. Clark, from Poussin and the Unbeliever in Heaven and Earth: Painting and the Life to Come (Thames & Hudson, 2018)
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| Euan Uglow Double Square 1999-2000 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Stephen Conroy Self Portrait 1 2005 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| Megan J. Davies Gran Turismo 2005 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Michael Craig-Martin Self Portrait 2007 acrylic on aluminum Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Neil Rutter Self 1 2007 oil on board Charnwood Borough Council, Leicestershire |
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| Dean Marsh Portrait of Camila Batmanghelidjh 2008 oil on panel National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Katharine Aarrestad This is the End of You 2008 acrylic and enamel on sheet metal Aberdeen Art Gallery (Scotland) |
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| Paul Emsley Portrait of V.S. Naipaul 2009 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Alex Katz Portrait of Anna Wintour 2009 oil on linen National Portrait Gallery, London |