Soutine

This canvas, in which Mr. Gershwin 's admiration for the bold-brushed style of Chaim Soutine is plain to see, is no less noteworthy for the way in which it hints at the complexity of the artist' s personality.

Unforgettable in More Than One Way Terry Teachout 2010

Pairing 18 paintings by Soutine with 14 by Bacon, "Soutine/Bacon," surprisingly, is the first of its kind.

Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare Lance Esplund 2011

Soutine's paintings of skinned rabbits, plucked fowl, fish and beef carcasses—metaphors for suffering and martyrdom, especially the Crucifixion—were inspired by paintings of similar subjects by Titian, El Greco, Rembrandt and Chardin.

Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare Lance Esplund 2011

Bacon's monstrosities of flesh, fueled more by Surrealism than Soutine, feel forced and cartoonish.

Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare Lance Esplund 2011

Nearly every one of Soutine's paintings signals the end of the world; and he flays and eviscerates his subjects—as if unleashing the writhing bowels of hell.

Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare Lance Esplund 2011

Seen among Soutine's masterpieces, Bacon, though clearly a kindred spirit, has never looked worse.

Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare Lance Esplund 2011

It became convenient to account for shifts in Freud's work by focusing on his early reliance on drawing and to cite the influence of painters from northern Europe such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Albrecht Dürer, or even to suggest a false comparison with the Neue Sachlichkeit painters active in Germany in the 1920s but unknown to the young Freud and overlook others as relevant as Paul Cézanne and Chaim Soutine.

Lucian Freud obituary 2011

Yet Soutine's existential outcries and fiery whirlwinds build to a state of natural beauty and calm—as if they could not have happened any other way.

Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare Lance Esplund 2011

When Bacon saw Soutine's pictures of hanging, slaughtered beef in Paris in 1927, they sparked his morbid imagination; not yet an artist, Bacon had long been fascinated by butcher shops.

Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare Lance Esplund 2011

In this show, Soutine's gnarled human arms suggest twisted roots.

Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare Lance Esplund 2011