Tate Britain, Millbank, London
7th March 2016 I visited Tate Britain to see the work of Frank Auerbach.
The work was arranged in the exhibition by decades from the 1950s to the present, many of which are paintings of people and landscapes near his studio in Mornington Crescent. The majority of the paintings are loans from private collections and and are therefore very rarely seen in public.
Auerbach uses both both oil and acrylic paints and has a unique way of drawing with the brush, adding, blotting and scraping the surface until it it has the required effect. The result is that some of the paintings have a very thick surface that is almost three dimensional in some of the works.
Some of my favorites in the exhibition were his landscapes some of which I have shown below:
The work was arranged in the exhibition by decades from the 1950s to the present, many of which are paintings of people and landscapes near his studio in Mornington Crescent. The majority of the paintings are loans from private collections and and are therefore very rarely seen in public.
Auerbach uses both both oil and acrylic paints and has a unique way of drawing with the brush, adding, blotting and scraping the surface until it it has the required effect. The result is that some of the paintings have a very thick surface that is almost three dimensional in some of the works.
Some of my favorites in the exhibition were his landscapes some of which I have shown below:
Primrose Hill 1971
Albert Street 2009
Hampstead Road, Summer Haze 2010
Hampstead Road, High Summer 2010
I found Auerbach's landscape paintings much more interesting than his portraits some of which I found a bit overpowering. An example is this one called Head of E.O.W. 1955
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