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Title: Painting People: Figure Painting Today
ISBN: 1933045388
Author:
Lucian Freud
John Currin
Rachel Whiteread
Publicate Date: 2006-09-15
Publish: 2006-09-15
List Price: $45.00
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Lowest Used Price: $229.99
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1: Great Diversity
Wonderful diversity of portraits. Discovered many new artists I wasn't aware of and want to learn more about. One of the best art books I've purchased.
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2: Painting People
Excellent book for professors who teach figure drawing and figure painting. Great resource of contemporary artists who work in figurative portraiture.
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3: Nothing daring....
I am always interested in artists whose work includes the human figure. I bought this book without seeing the contents, but figured that with a John Currin on the cover it had to be good. It did include a good range of artists, but I was disappointed to see some of the images. It seemed like the author selected PG versions of the paintings or at least the more PG work by many of the artists.
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4: Very Current
Very current (mostly) and well presented.
Favorites; Eric Fischl, Lucian Freud, Chuck Close, John Currin,Barnaby Furnas
Steven Gefrom
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5: Remember you can't JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.
Geez, a couple of the other reviewers are complaining the cover of this art book is misleading. Didn't somebody teach them in grade school you cannot judge a book by its cover?
John Currin is only one of at least a dozen artists featured in this book. So there is a lot of different kinds of painting featured here, so if you only like classical portriature or very realistic painting, you are in the wrong place! This is for lovers of contemporary art, including some of the current greats, ie Cecily Brown, Yan Pei-Ming, etcetera and so on.
While not exactly an exhaustive or investigative feature on contemporary figurative painting, it does hit up a lot of the big names right now and the reproductions are very nice. Each artists gets two or three pages. I would have prefered more. But this modestly sized book is very pretty and fun to flip through and make comparisions.
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