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Chaim Soutine’s art work
Chaim Soutine was a remarkable artist who employed a unique form of technique in the world of painting. He spent his early life as a child in Russia where he received his knowledge in arts. He later moved to Paris where he developed his skills further and was able to meet other historically renowned artist. Soutine unique technique in painting was discovered his art teachers who later become his mentor (Dunow and Juchman 4). Soutine’s unique painting was a result of his own personal vision mostly guided by the experiences he had in his life. In addition he was intrigued by European traditional paintings which provoked him to add his own unique style. Soutine developed in the world of painting that saw him easily converge the traditional European paintings with his own abstract expressionistic art works that had not been in existence.
In his works, Soutine had a firm connection to the subjects of his paintings that were easily recognizable. He had strong and growing innovations on how he continually represented his subjects using with the surface covered with a thick impasto of paint, the visible brushwork, the palette and the paintings that effectively demonstrated Soutine’s innermost torment (Meisler 30). What makes Soutine stand out in the art of painting is his capability of interpreting themes that were common with his audience. Moreover Soutine was able to develop his unique perspective and vision regarding the human subjects, still-life forms and the landscapes granting them a particular poignancy and Vanitas (Dunow and Juchman 12). Soutine was a unique prototypical artist whose internal emotions like depression and temper were well represented by the painting that he encrusted on the canvas.
One of the Soutine’s most famous art painting is the Carcass of Beef, which he regarded to be his masterpiece (Meisler 33). In this painting, Soutine was able to bring out his inner emotions and feelings to the audience by painting the beef that seemed split open. This particular work of art shows the excellence of Soutine’s painting of still subjects. It is regarded as his most successful and important pieces of art paintings. In doing such paintings amongst his many, he repeatedly used animal carcasses as the main subject matter for still life paintings. The beef carcass painting including other paintings of this nature was influenced by the kind of relationship that he had with food.
This particular painting of a still life carcass of an ox was obtained from the old master’s slaughter house by Soutine as it had a significant resemblance to a beef carcass. The painting was created in 1655 and was characterized by isolation of the subject matter by carefully employing a distinct method of creating still life (The Art Story 1). This shows an exemplary excellence that could have learned from a mentor. According to Dunow and Juchman (10), he got inspiration from art works of Rembrandt that he admired him at that time.
There is a unique pattern of Soutine’s early life with that of his art work. His early knowledge of the early religious persecution had a significant impact of his personal life as well as the way he represented his work. In addition, his quest of art work that was totally expressionistic in nature was fuelled by personal experience in a discriminatory society (Dunow and Juchman 15). These personal experiences came to be a basis of his artwork by providing themes and objects from them. Soutine therefore incorporated his personal feelings to his brushstrokes and totally devoted his life to painting.
Soutine’s art paintings uniquely employed expressionistic abstract technique that became a phenomenon in the world of painting. Nevertheless his unique style of employing this expressionistic design made him stand out from German’s expressionistic paintings that were popular at that time. One of the most distinguishing characteristics is the style that Soutine used to bring out his inner feelings and emotions in his works (Meisler 19). In this regard it is plausible to conclude that Soutine’s art paintings were highly personal in nature. Soutine’s audience could easily identify these emotions through the painting’s use of color, texture and the story that was given by his subject matter. He was able to introduce a new form of painting technique that became to be known as abstract expressionistic art work that revolutionized the world of painting during his existence.
Works Cited
Dunow Esti and Juchman Maurise. The Impact of Chaim Soutine (1893-1943). Paris. Hatje Cantz Publishers. 2002. Print.
Meisler Stanley. Shocking Paris: Chaim Soutine. Los Angeles. St. Martin’s Press. 2015. Print.
The Art Story, Carcass of Beef (1925), Chaim Soutine, Russian-French Painter. TheArtStorry.org, Retrieved From, 11 December, 2015 <http://www.theartstory.org/artist-soutine-chaim.htm>