Paint Made Flesh exhibition at the Frist Center

Walk through the Paint Made Flesh exhibition with Chief Curator Mark Scala. This exhibition presents paintings created in Europe and the United States since the 1950s in which a wide range of painterly effects suggest the carnal properties and cultural significance of human flesh and skin. As a revisionist study of post-World War II art, the exhibition offers a rejoinder to the modernist orthodoxies of the mid-to-late 20th century by contending that paints material properties make it well suited to convey metaphors of human vulnerability. The exhibition includes works by Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Willem de Kooning, Alice Neel, Leon Golub, Eric Fischl, Georg Baselitz, Jenny Saville, Wangechi Mutu, Daniel Richter, and others.

(Special thanks to Artfilgo).

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[lcooke]

Does anyone know the artist that did the painting shown in close-up at 0:35? I can't remember!

[FristCenter]

The artist is John Currin, "The Hobo," 1999.

[amicus82]

Anyone know what the music is?

[blankcanvas53]

looks like a nice exhibit. but, get another cameraman so we can see the artwork!!

[burgerboy143]

curator is a douche... he obviously knows alot about art theory but he is stating his opinions like they are coming out of the artists mouth..

[themartinmanisdead]

Awesome paintings, that guy is talking bollocks over most of the images though. Its just his opinion and he's saying it like its fact

[MrChubbington]

unmiron reckon's these are ugly and amateur paintings ! He obviously hasn't had the good fortune of benefiting of a decent art education , or even maybe he comes from some midwest , pan handle , wheat belt etc state in the USA. Lucien Freud amateur..He hassold for 27 million quid ie 40million usd , Jenny Saville amateur? This world is plagued with morons, de Kooning an amateur ! Go buy yourself your three painted plaster ducks and put them on your wall above your flower patterned couch!

[hopelesslyinlovedu]

hello Fristcenter

do you know if Jenny Saville has some kind of compiling book of her work?

thanks

[chipboyesse]

yes icocke, ...it's John Currin at 0:35

[unmiron]

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. LOL

[unmiron]

Here are some ugly and amateur paintings, way are they telling us that they are great paintings