Frank Auerbach

Quote from the John Tusa interview: 

'the thick paint, the gashes of colour, the bold gestures of the painting. It's very recognisable, as indeed Auerbach's pictures are - they're only in oil or charcoal, occasionally acrylic now, only portraits of a very limited number of sitters, or of landscapes around Camden Town in north London. For 50 years since leaving Art College , Auerbach has ploughed the deepest of furrows - some say too narrowly perhaps - with an obsessive intensity. He seeks to capture reality, to create something new, create something living as he puts it, to add something to the world. Frank Auerbach belongs to no school though he has been linked to his friend Leon Kossoff, to Lucien Freud, to Francis Bacon. He has followed no -isms, belonged to no active coterie. He works intensively, slowly and doggedly to achieve that rawness that he seeks.'


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/auerbach_transcript.shtml

'Self Portrait' 1958 Charcoal on paper collage laid down on card 

'Nude' 1954 Charcoal on paper 

'Study for Mornington Crescent' 1970 Charcoal on paper 

Unlike his drawings, I have come to recognize that what I appreciate about his paintings is the think application of paint, not the aesthetic, but the free movement of the process.

'Head of J.Y.M No.1' 1981 Oil on canvas