Luc Tuymans "Summer is Over" at DAVID ZWIRNER 

I love his work. Thank you , Kate!

I can't thank you enough for sharing these wonderful exhibits with those of us who'll probably never get to see them in person. Bless you!

Thank you Kate

Thank you James.

nice video, the "kiss, kiss, kiss" narration helps set the atmosphere. And congrats on not being phased by the woman who questioned you.

You raise a good point too. ' He started made himself " important"' The people who crowned him, and the magnifying effect after some good reviews,these are no way legitimate for me, it will never be. His painting just simply falls short in many aspect. Don't really see why his paintings were important to the history of art from the first place.

watching these now while at art school, all these videos are incredible assets in art history, im glad that old tart embarrassed herself on such an important (and growing more so) document!!

I think that Luc Tuymans is essentially a classi "Postmodern" painter. He is about deconstructing metanarratives. Each glimpse and crop is meant to disassociate the viewer and bring up a multitude of questions about reality. That is why he so adeptly takes specific views and abstracts them as LM stated. He is really a great artist and I love his work. However, it would be nice to see people take this work and go further with it conceptually.

Thanks again for a great video and commentary! West coast student here. : )

James, thanks very much for uploading this. I was hoping that you would. A couple of days after the opening I was looking for your (this) vid.

The painting at 7:45 makes me think of the work of Gretchen Dow Simpson. Look her up. She used to do New Yorker covers and now lives in Providence.

Everybody loves Luc Tuymans!

I liked the self portrait. And I like the way he applies his paint, with a very light touch, reminds me of crochet. I have to say, the other images I found not all that exciting, I mean relatively speaking for his standard of course.

I love how NOOOOOOO one is looking at the paintings lol

@2:45 That quote was actually from Tolstoy (Anna Karenina).

Agreed!

Thanks Andrew Weis, I knew it was one of the Russians. I forgot to finish my though, which was, just as all happy families are happy in the same way but all sad families are sad in unique ways. Likewise all successful artists are successful in the same way, but failed artists fail in unique ways.

There is a lot in common btwn Luc and Elizabeth Peyton...there use of paint is very similar, although, it seems that conceptually they are very different.

at 6:04, wannabe elitist. you would think in her 80 yrs, she would have developed some sort of humility. remember every movie ever that had snobby cheerleaders and jocks? some of em never change.

< > The art is almost as good as the sax man on the platform

6:04 - Is she having some kind of a problem?!

Popeyeisgood, I'm curious, what contemporary painter do you respect? Because I couldn't disagree with you more on Luc Tuymans.

and i am just strictly talking about representational work here. i dont mind looking at abstract paintings (especially minimalistic) and sometime find it appealing. but most of all it is not reasonable enough for me to invest my energy into it.

and i would like to hear from you your reason of disagreement with my comment.

These feel like Luc is parodying himself. Bigger and more self-conscious, in touch and subject matter. Take your hand off it Luc!

Did he say Dah-fid

I love these new works. They're more ABSTRACT! But I can't stand the NOISEY reception! And the art snobs. Ugh.

please just ignore that women next time. That question is up there with 'why do you look like a lizard with a perm'?

this is a very sentimental idea of painting both in style and the kind of poetry it presents .Painterly representation. Reminds me of the third year of art college type painting. THE FACT IS THAT KNOWING THESE ARE FROM PHOTOGRAPHS MAKES THEM A LOT LESS INTERESTING THAN AN ARTIST LIKE FREUD WHO WORKS FROM LIFE... Something phony here....doesn't feel true.....sour art opening hags @ 6:00...

I will try to remain open until I actually see his work in person but for the time being I just don't get what all the adulation is about. Something so listless about his marks and perversely vacuous compositions. Has he ever enjoyed kissing someone or indulged in a fine meal ? It's like Tuymans has no appetite. And one quality I hope to see in any artist's work no matter what medium is appetite.

to be really honest with you. i can hardly respect completely to almost any of big names in the contemporary painting world. and david zwriner happens to be one of the more respectable galleries in ny for me. i can give you a few painters' names that i like more than tuyman, for example, rauch, nordstrom from zwriner are both better than him imo. other big names i 'respect' more than tuyman are doig(slightly more), antonio garcia lopez

Very true. Luc Tuymans is one of the most overrated modern painters nowadays. Working from life doesn't necessarily make it more genuine, But copying photograph in such sloppy style with almost no surface quality is just hard to be appreciated. And of course the sloppiness is a style, a style that could be easily duplicated by 'painters' who are half-ass in terms of paint handling and using their brains. Easy way for soulless copycats to make 'good' paintings.

Probably, where he started made him important, with thin, painterly "comment" on internet photos. Now it seems to me the work is merely thin in content and technique (except maybe for "My Leg"). Is he perhaps too self-permissivee? Lazy?

"SOULLESS COPYCATS"--- Ha! That's just it....Why so HUGE and revered? Nothing special here, I have no problem with using photos....(Look at Richard Estes or Robert Bechtle for some nice examples). It is this merging of an impressionistic style which implies "struggle" or a need to capture something in changing light etc. combined with the "introspective" subject matter which all adds up to a painting that comes across as anachronistic.

Brooklyn Rail writer seems like such a simpleton. Do these companies just hire their neighbors and friends' kids?

yeah, but she should just mind her own business...but i think she wanted her head on the video as well...haha

What fraudulent crap. A shame.