Peter Doig: Contemporary Artists (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

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Mark Hudson, art critic, said: "This is art that's designed to resonate in the mind as much as the eye: a sumptuous Magic Realism for the digital age, with a random, search-engine-like connection-making rendered in oil painting that delights with the sheer richness of its surfaces."

Peter Doig - Rizzoli New York

You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side. art - Das Kunstmagazin 4/2002: Gruppe: Die Schlumper. Erasmus Schröter, F.C. Gundlach Fotografie. Cimabue. Peter Doig. Foto- Triennale Hamburg. Duchamp-Schau. Österreichische Kulturforum New York. Nuk- Figuren Afrika. Gläserne Manufaktur Dresden.

Hitch Hiker” also gave him the idea of using his Canadian experience in his work. “I suddenly had a subject that I hadn’t had before,” he said. Canada had always seemed familiar and mundane to him, but now, in London, it became exciting. During his time at Chelsea, and for the next few years, Doig painted what he called “homely” suburban houses, frozen ponds, ski areas, and open fields. The houses in these early paintings look uninhabited and desolate, and you see them through a screen of trees or underbrush, or blurred by falling snow. (He went on to paint architect-designed houses—including Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Briey-en-Forêt, France, half hidden behind a screen of trees.) He was painting spaces that you had to make an effort to look into.

Peter Doig at the Courtauld Gallery in London The Big Review: Peter Doig at the Courtauld Gallery in London

In the film, Doig reflects on his move to this studio and on this particularly creative period during which he has made a major new group of paintings. Doig offers insight into his work, which explores a rich variety of places, people, memories and ways of painting. Perhaps he should thank his father for catalysing his wanderlust and for the passionate fitfulness that marks his approach to painting. “My dad always had itchy feet,” says Doig. “He was always changing jobs and moving on.” Accountancy was David Doig’s profession but painting was a hobby that followed him like a shadow. “He was a good painter. It was frustrating because he had no real confidence in his work – in the sense that he didn’t really give it the time it merited. When he died, I published a book of his paintings and people were surprised at how interesting they were.” Zürich, Parkett Verlag 2003. 25,5 : 21 cm. 201 S. mit zahlr. teils farb. Abb. u. (67) S. Anzeigen. Illustr. Orig.-Umschlag. Insert: Marcel Dzama. - Schönes Exemplar. Sprache: de, en. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial?He lived in King's Cross, which he described at the time as "a mad, rough place, full of oddballs and artists". Doig felt comfortable in the local scene and started hanging around with musicians and fashion designers. At college, he said, he "found his voice", despite being intimidated by his peers and the "general air of cool that hung over the place". He began his artistic career painting urban scenes, which he said were "less about making paintings and more about making images". Sheena Wagstaff in Gifts of Art: The Met's 150th Anniversary. Ed. Jennifer Bantz et al. New York, 2020, pp. 170, 198, ill. (color). Encroaching on the greats … Night Bathers, from 2019. Photograph: Peter Doig, Courtesy Courtauld Institute The piece took six years to complete and Doig worked on it up until the moment it was delivered to the gallery. All of the artist's signature motifs are there; water, reflection, a solitary boat, snowfall, vivid color, and mysterious messages, but here the violence hinted at in previous pieces becomes more pronounced, literally foregrounded in the painting.