Tag Archives: Justin Mortimer

Paul Black talks Voyeurism and Mortality with Justin Mortimer

Justin Mortimer’s paintings reverberate with a fore-knowledge of Baconian flesh and torpor, and that quintessential Freudian cogency and mass that forever changed the idealistic template of the figure in painting into an expression of a post-God mortality. For both twentieth century artists, a delicious glut of adjectives are to be found, as there are when […]

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When Darkness Falls by Emese Krunák-Hajagos

Nightfall / Alkony New tendencies in figurative painting Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, March 29 – May 24, 2013 MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary October 7, 2012 – February 10, 2013 Mankind has always been fascinated by darkness. In the beginning as the Bible says, “darkness covered the face of the deep” and since then looking into […]

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