Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is a Belgian artist who lives and works in Antwerp. Tuymans is considered one of the most influential painters working today. His signature figurative paintings transform mediated film, television, and print sources into examinations of history and memory.
Early life and education
Tuymans was born in Mortsel near Antwerp, Belgium. Tuymans's mother's family had worked in the Dutch resistance and hid refugees. His Belgian Flemish father later revealed that two of his brothers had been in the Hitler Youth. Tuymans began his studies in the fine arts at the Sint-Lukasinstituut in Brussels in 1976. At the age of 19 Tuymans encountered a series of El Greco paintings in Budapest while working as a guard for a European railway company. Subsequently he studied fine arts at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels, Belgium (1979–1980) and at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium (1980–1982). He abandoned painting in 1982, studying art history at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels (1982–6), and spent three years experimenting with video and film until 1985.
Included in the collection are three works by Moroccan artist Jacob El Hanani, who grew up in Israel... Other works on display from Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) and Jasper Johns (b ... ....
But Antwerp’s real gems? Its people ... Where to Stay ... PainterPeter Paul Rubens’ Baroque flourishes converse with Luc Tuymans’ stark modernity, mirrored by the building’s blend of 19th-century opulence and contemporary design ... .
30 Years,” the exhibition will feature new works by artists who have been with the gallery since the beginning, including Luc Tuymans and Stan Douglas, and artists who have recently joined the ...
“How is it I am still alive? I’ll tell you I’m alive because there’s a temporary shortage of death ...Little’s spooky portraits remind Tunde of paintings by contemporary artists such as Luc Tuymans and Marlene Dumas ... Teju Cole ... Read more ... .
In this book Peppiatt assembles a selection of biographical studies of some of the artists whose work quickens his heart ... As he writes about Balthus ... Kitaj ... It must have a moral dimension.’ And here’s a provocative remark from the Belgian Luc Tuymans ... .
His territory and approach (though not his handling of paint itself) is not so different to that of Luc Tuymans, Wilhelm Sasnal and, at times, the earlier work of Peter Doig.
The title of Elena Zolotnitsky's solo exhibition at BryantStreetGallery, on view until Dec ... More contemporary influences include Richard Diebenkorn, Luc Tuymans and Paul Cezanne. "These are at my core so to speak ... still-life, portrait and landscape.
“Does a woman have intellectual authority?” she asked at the time ...Paul Cézanne. The choice was heartfelt, and considered ... Photograph ... Photograph ... The pieces by Luc Tuymans and Kerry James Marshall are extracted, with permission, from the catalogue ... .
In fact Picasso had purchased an estate on its slopes in the south of France...Photograph ... In the catalogue a range of contemporary artists from the Turner winner Lubaina Himid to the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans share their admiration ... Photograph ... Tate4 ... .
After 11 years of renovation, Belgium's Royal Museum of Fine ArtsAntwerp has reinvented itself ... 1450) — the "Mona Lisa" of Antwerp, as Nico van Hout calls her — hangs in a room next to the painting "The Diagnostic View" (1992) by Luc Tuymans ... ....
1885." ... 1885 ... and Mrs ... To prove that point, the curators invited 10 contemporary artists, including Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall and Luc Tuymans, to write essays about individual works in the show and reflect on Cezanne’s influence on their work.
The artist paints himself glowering in a miasma of shadows, one eye homing in on you like a target ...The JuvenileLead (Self Portrait), 1907 ... AlexanderGavin Henderson, 2nd Lord Faringdondescends a staircase, all in white, like a bleached Luc Tuymans ... .
