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Figure Painting

According to James Elkins in his book What Painting Is, “Paint is essentially liquid and stone.” He compares stones to pigment, which is the matter that gives paint its color. Pigment is generally obtained through the earth, stone, or plant material. Over the centuries painters have used a variety of media when attempting to represent the human flesh, including; milk, egg yolks, beeswax, gum arabic, and plasters. The Corpororealities exhibit at Cornell Fine Arts Museum displayed the age-old technique of oil painting to portray the human figure. By definition, corpororealities means; of the body; of a material nature; tangible (Lotz). In my opinion the tour de force of the exhibit was an untitled piece by Vincent Desiderio and Francis Bacon’s, Etude de Corps. Both of these paintings show an abstract view of the human body.

Vincent Desiderio is an American Contemporary Realist painter, born in 1955. His style of painting tends to be of symbolic puzzles and is similar to Italian Renaissance and Baroque painters. He created this piece in 2001; a triptych of water, a head, and x-ray (Lotz). It is a multi-paneled format with three images that relate to one another. This oil painting is


I would consider both of the painter’s techniques avant-garde and abstract. The compositions display the artist’s influences and emotions. Both artists represented the human figure as a dark, mysterious being. I was attracted to these two works because of the hidden messages the artists were trying to send to the viewers. Even though the message they wanted to send may not be the one we are getting.

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