Christopher Le Brun: Doubles
- Le Brun is one of the leading British painters of his generation, celebrated internationally since the 1980s, making both figurative and abstract work in painting, sculpture and print
- Le Brun was President of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2011 to 2019 as well as its Professor of Drawing. He was awarded a knighthood in 2021 for services to the arts. He is married to the painter Charlotte Verity
- Le Brun is recognised for his mastery of colour and stroke as well as the range of influences evident in his painting, from visual sources to music and literature (e.g. in his Composer series of prints from 2017; the paintings in this book continue to explore the musical form in painting)
This publication accompanied a 2018 exhibition by the British painter and printmaker Christopher Le Brun. The body of work explored here develops his long-standing interest in the ‘double’ – conceptual and embodied duality. The arresting diptychs and single paintings provide a direct continuation of his series of prints Composer (2017), which explores the musical form of distinct yet related movements and the essentially layered structure of both painting and music.
Working directly on the woodcut proofs, these new oil paintings extend Le Brun’s lifelong preoccupation with colour – in his words, ‘experiencing rather than seeing a property of the world we delight in for itself’ – and represent radical experiments in the juxtaposition of colour, tone, transparency and form.
The book features an essay by exhibition curator Anna Dempster exploring dualities across a number of disciplines.
- Publisher
- Ridinghouse
- ISBN
- 9781909932449
- Published
- 21st Jul 2022
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Territory
- World excluding USA & Canada
- Size
- 241 mm x 184 mm
- Pages
- 76 Pages
- Illustrations
- 60 color
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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