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P8528

© Courtesy of the artist and The Approach, London

Man Photographing a Bird in the Wind 2014

Stuart Cumberland (1970 – )

Details

Dimension
195 x 110cm
Media
oil on linen
Accession number
P8528

Summary

Often aping the aesthetic of screen-printing technique, Cumberland creates his canvases with brushes, spatulas, rollers and window cleaning tools, painstakingly building canvases which appear effortlessly produced and do not divulge the complexity and labour of their creation. The highly controlled use of material is used to consciously avoid expression and the romance of painting. His most recent paintings are inhabited with human and animal figures along with still life elements. Each appears on the canvas bound together on the picture plane but separate from each other. A dog, his ears blowing in a breeze stares at the owner he adores while this man looks away his gaze locked on a bird suspended in the sky.

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Glossary

  • Canvas

    A piece of cloth woven from flax, hemp or cotton fibres. The word has generally come to refer to any piece of firm, loosely woven fabric used to paint on. Its surface is typically prepared for painting by priming with a ground.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.