Like slightly distorted memories, the paintings are more vivid than the original subjects.
I find many exhibitions baffling: strange videos, distorted and grotesque paintings, graffiti, perverse photography.
Other religious paintings show distorted, weirdly mystical figures.
Bacon's paintings of distorted, anguished figures fetched as much as $6 million at auction and made him one of Britain's most celebrated postwar artists.
Mr. Esber's paintings of distorted and fragmented cartoon characters look like collaborations by Peter Saul, Philip Guston and R. Crumb, but have their own creepy-comical sensibility.
Mr. Esber's paintings of distorted and fragmented cartoon characters look like collaborations between Peter Saul, Philip Guston and R. Crumb, but have their own creepy-comical sensibility.
Over the years Mr. Bacon's paintings of distorted, anguished figures brought as much as $6 million at auction and made him one of Britain's most celebrated postwar artists.
The unusual shapes in Blair's paintings are distorted versions of forms she saves from the internet sources are as varied as YouTube videos, blogs, or the "free stuff" ads on Craigslist.
And on Wednesday an exhibition of her drawings and paintings of weirdly distorted tools, from 1963 and '64, opens at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York.
In "Small Apartment," in which a couple shares some sort of anguish at a table in front of two paintings, their fluid, distorted faces are veritable flip books of feeling.
