Euston Steps - Study
Oil On Board
Expressionism
1981
Contemporary
122.0 x 152.0 cm
Arts Council Collection
‘Euston Steps – Study’ is one of a number of paintings made by Frank Auerbach in the train stations, building sites and streets around his studio in London’s Camden Town. This is one of a series of paintings depicting the steps at Euston Station. While the word ‘study’ suggests that this is a preliminary experiment for a larger or more polished work, in fact this is a finished painting. The expressionist, thick impasto brushwork and the palette of browns, greens and oranges are typical of Auerbach’s painting of this periodIn both his portraits and landscapes, Auerbach has attempted to capture something deeper than what is immediately seen. He once described the difference between ‘the sort of painter who is arranging things on a surface for their own sake and the sort of painter who has a permanent sense of the tangible world … to make a true record, the experience has in some way to be digested and turned into the artist’s gesture’.Jacky Klein
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Vilket medium och vilka mått har "Euston Steps - Study" av Frank Helmuth Auerbach?
Tekniken i "Euston Steps - Study" av Frank Helmuth Auerbach är Oil On Board och de angivna måtten är 122 x 152 cm.
Hur möts epok och stil i "Euston Steps - Study" av Frank Helmuth Auerbach?
"Euston Steps - Study" tillhör den Expressionism rörelsen, och dess skapare verkade under Modern-eran.
Är "Euston Steps - Study" av Frank Helmuth Auerbach ett porträtt, landskap eller en kvadratisk komposition?
"Euston Steps - Study" av Frank Helmuth Auerbach har ett Landscape-format. Formatet beskriver kompositionens proportioner.
Frank Helmuth Auerbach (1931 –)
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Om detta konstverk
- Titel: Euston Steps - Study
- Konstnär: Frank Helmuth Auerbach
- År: 1981
- Ursprungliga mått: 122.0 x 152.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Upphovsrättsligt skydd: Upphovsrättsskyddat
- Plats för visning: Arts Council Collection
- Teknik: Oil On Board
- Period: Contemporary
- Kontext i korpus: post-war london atmosphere , london urban life
Snabbfakta
- Year: 1981
- Subject or theme: Urban life at Euston Station
- Notable elements or techniques: Thick impasto brushwork
- Artist: Frank Helmuth Auerbach