Luc Tuymans

The belgium painter Luc Tuymans is considered done of the most important and influential contemporary artists. His paintings are basically figurative. He isolates images retracted from photographs, television and cinema giving them a new aspect and sense. For that he uses photographic or cinematographic techniques like repetition, close-up, or crop, etc. A trace of union between his pieces seems to be monochrome which flaunts, as if a pale veil covered them or they had been washed out...