Nov
14
Still Life With Rayfish - Chaim Soutine, 1923
From the Cleveland Museum of Art:
Inspired by J. S. Chardin’s 1725–26 still life of a stingray at the Musée du Louvre, Soutine reinterpreted the theme in a turbulent, luminescent manner. Every line and form undulates as if propelled by some unseen force. Tied up on two points, as if being tortured or crucified, the stingray assumes an expression of almost human anguish, transforming it into a powerful metaphor for suffering, perhaps referring to Soutine’s own life as a poor, immigrant artist in Paris.
Stingrays are so cute in the face.
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