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Gary Hume

Gary Hume (Born 1962) is active/lives in New York / England.  Gary Hume is known for Large scale minamal form richly colored painting.

Gary Hume is renowned for paintings distinguished by a bright palette, reduced imagery and flat areas of seductive colour.  While Hume's paintings have always emphasised their luscious surfaces and simplified forms, many are infused with a melancholic beauty.

Hume first received critical acclaim with a body of work known as the 'Door' paintings. These minimal and abstract works, with their high gloss paint and insistent reflective surfaces, developed in the early 1990s into a broader set of motifs, such as the nude, the portrait, the garden, as well as a pictorial idiom drawn from childhood, with images of polar bears, snowmen, rabbits, owls and close-up faces.

His subject matter broadened yet more through the mid 1990s to incorporate images from popular culture, making portraits of celebrity figures such as Tony Blackburn, Kate Moss and Patsy Kensit.  For the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1999), he produced the 'Water Paintings', large-scale works o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2301 characters.]  Artist bio

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