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GARY
HUME fig.: Gary
Hume When
asked about his preferred painting motifs, Gary Hume once answered that
he painted “flora, fauna, and portrait.” Hume trawls
the collective hackneyed pool of everyday images – whether they
be icons of the pop and fashion world, e.g. “Michael,” 2001
(Michael Jackson), and “Kate,” 1996 (Kate Moss), or taken
from our art historical heritage, e.g. in “After Vermeer,”
1995, or from the fairytale world of childhood, e.g. “Bird on
a Branch,” 1998, and “Bear,” 1994 – and resuscitates
these into new, valid, modern-day versions of those images. He finds
and invents new images of broken, threatened beauty, with lines and
colored fields that clash with but at the same time enhance each other
and with idiosyncratic color blends and combinations full of harmony
and tension. next>>> |
