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Item Number: 118941
Title: ELIZABETH PEYTON [Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation with Elizabeth Peyton, A Selection from Marcel Proust by Edmund White]
Author: Obrist, Hans Ulrich
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780847839094
Description: New York: distoributed by Rizzoli for the Gagosian Gallery, Paris, 2012. 33cm., hardcover, 118pp. illus., most in color. French-English text. Exhibition catalogue. Summary : With the statement "A painter can say all he wants to with fruit, flowers or even clouds," Edouard Manet evoked the genre of still-life painting to rebuff the heroic and overcharged history paintings of his time. More than a century later, Peyton's jewel-like paintings reaffirm Manet's belief in the quiet potency of an enduring intimiste genre. Although Peyton's paintings infer a deep knowledge of historical artistic forbears from Goya to Warhol, this awareness is processed through an instinctual understanding of the time in which she lives. Combining her insights with modest scale, a lush yet tremulous palette, and extreme graphic sensitivity, her paintings and drawings are testaments to a passion for beauty in all its forms, from the sublime to the everyday. Portraits of artists both historical and contemporary are rendered from photographs or from life. Peyton imbues each likeness with a startling freshness and immediacy, although like a still life it is distanced from its subject.
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