John Currin
Drawing from sources as diverse as Northern Renaissance painting and pinup magazines, John Currin is known for his distortions of the human figure and critiques of societal ideals of beauty. In the 1990s, Currin was among a wave of artists, including Cecily Brown, Jenny Saville, John Sonsini, and others, with a renewed interest in portraiture.
A horizontal landscape moves from blue sky on the left to a sunset on the right. It is a painful sensation of time passing and maybe a memory of childhood.
