The Barn, 2022, oil on linen, 319.8 x 254.2 cm.
Here’s an artist who doesn’t waste paint to make a point. Tuymans’ trademark thinness, like Henry Raeburn’s before him, produces a magical effect peculiar to economies of means. Unexpectedly, less paint is more picture in both cases, as modest materiality yields to the insistent image. Though Tuymans has d…
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