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Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans (Born 1958) is active/lives in Belgium.  Luc Tuymans is known for Abstract figurative painting and sculpture, mosaics, history and cultural themes.

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LUC TUYMANS

1958
Born Mortsel, Belgium

1976 Began to study Fine Arts

Lives and works in Antwerp

Exposing the gap between represented image and historical event, Luc Tuymans's paintings delve into the inner workings of how mythology is created. The reality of Luc Tuymans's work is almost 'twee', pleasing images of a lampshade or leopard-skin rug pass quite comfortably as aesthetic totems; it's only their cognitive association with the Holocaust, or atrocities of the Belgian Congo, that encapsulates the true banality of evil - the unspeakable horror in a teacup, the monstrous potential of an empty bath. Luc Tuymans's paintings consciously fall desperately short of the iconic, becoming vestiges posed as counterfeit emblems for that which cannot be conveyed.

If media images inadequately depict the horrors of reality, then Luc Tuymans's paintings are even more disturbingly detached. Often taking his imagery from published photos (of war, violence,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4951 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Luc Tuymans

   Luc Tuymans  Born:  1958 - Mortsel, Belgium
Known for:  Abstract figurative painting and sculpture, mosaics, history and cultural themes

LUC TUYMANS

1958
Born Mortsel, Belgium

1976 Began to study Fine Arts

Lives and works in Antwerp

Exposing the gap between represented image and historical event, Luc Tuymans's paintings delve into the inner workings of how mythology is created. The reality of Luc Tuymans's work is almost 'twee', pleasing images of a lampshade or leopard-skin rug pass quite comfortably as aesthetic totems; it's only their cognitive association with the Holocaust, or atrocities of the Belgian Congo, that encapsulates the true banality of evil - the unspeakable horror in a teacup, the monstrous potential of an empty bath. Luc Tuymans's paintings consciously fall desperately short of the iconic, becoming vestiges posed as count  ...  Displaying 750 of 4951 characters.

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