Luc Tuymans is a wonderful contemporary artist born in Mortsel, Belgium in the year 1958. Tuymans makes references to international events that have been on the news and in the papers. He works with oils on canvas with references to photographs.
As for paint quality and color, his work is very dull and greyed out, it reminds me of the way watercolor sometimes looks brilliant when fresh, then the paint dries and sometimes the color goes away.
For his collegiate education Tuymans attended the National School for the Visual Arts in Brussels and the Koninkliijke Academy in Antwerp. He was studying the fine arts at these colleges that switched his major to art history finishing up at Vriije University in Brussels.
price range information: The artist has broken the one million dollar mark at auction with a the sale of Mwana Kitoka for $1.4 million. Below is this painting:
His wife is an artist from Venezuela named Carla Arocha. Below an example of her work, she works mainly in acrylics as in this example:
In this clip from the Tate Shots series we visit the artist in his hometown of Antwerp, Belgium:
In this clip we visit a gallery show from 2008 with the great James Kalm:
Here with the great James Kalm we visit a show featuring Luc Tuymans that took place in 2013:
Tuymans has also acted as a curator.
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