Monday, March 30, 2020

Painted Figures (Stylized, Distorted) - After 1970

Tom Phillips
After Raphael
1972-73
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Anne Norwich
Reading
1973
acrylic on canvas
Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Frank Auerbach
Seated Figure with Arms Raised
1973
oil on board
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Peter de Francia
Monsieur and Madame Beylac
1974
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Charles Maussion
Family Portrait
1978
acrylic on paper
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich

BrĂ¼er Tidman
The Dressing Room
1978
acrylic on canvas
Norfolk Museums

He was touched or he touched or

He was touched or he touched or
she did and was, or they were
and would. Or the room could, its
three doors, two windows or

the house on a slant touching,
touched by the drift down street, cars
pressing quick or slowing. All along
the town touched a river, the river

the filth falling through it. What was clean –
a source pure as rumor – a shore
touching lake touched by wind above,
and below, a spring. All touch blindly

further water. That blue touching
blacker regions in the sea so weirdly
solitary, each to under, to every
sideways past deeper, where nowhere.

– Marianne Boruch (2009)

Colin Smith
Untitled
1979
oil on canvas
Royal College of Art, London

Ian Hughes
Catacomb
ca. 1980
oil on canvas
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
 
John Bellany
Self Portrait with Alan Davie
1985
oil on canvas
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands

Sonia Lawson
Moorland Benediction
ca. 1985
oil on canvas
Kirklees Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire

Robert Medley
Despolio
1985
oil on canvas
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Sussex

Francis Convery
Studio Visit - A Northern School
1995
oil on canvas
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

Chantal Joffe
Red-Haired Woman in the Park
2003
oil on board
Government Art Collection, London

Lys Hansen
Lost Man
2003
oil and pastel on paper
University of Stirling, Scotland

Paul Richards
Charlie the Chimp
2003
acrylic on canvas
Tavistock Centre, London