{"id":239,"date":"2016-10-14T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/foundations\/?p=239"},"modified":"2020-02-07T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:23:05","slug":"contemporary-figure-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/foundations\/2016\/10\/14\/contemporary-figure-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Contemporary Figurative Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dana Schutz is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for her humorous, gestural paintings that take on specific subjects or narrative situations as a point of departure. – Jarrett Earnest<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Jaclyn
Dana Schutz
Sneeze
Oil on canvas
48.3 x 48.3 cm (19 x 19 inches)
2001
http:\/\/www.macm.org\/danaschutz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SCH-01_00011.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Dana Schutz paintings:<\/p>\n

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  • Expressing states not visible in photographs<\/li>\n
  • Where a surreal feeling, the absurd or extreme, is visible<\/li>\n
  • Anxieties about the body, body in space and time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    In the video she talks about humour, play, abstraction, and her relationships her subjects.<\/p>\n