Comments on: Soutine’s Carcass Paintings – Part 3

By: Tree Smith

Tree Smith — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:50:04 +0000

Q, it’s a well known fact, and one I’ve mentioned in this piece that Soutine only painted from life and never from memory. Some of the stories about this are legendary and definitely worth a read! I’m sure I mention the side of beef he kept in his studio somewhere in this piece but I can’t remember offhand which part.

I would guess that with the exception of the poor dog, he got all his subjects at a local street market.

By: Q

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:50:30 +0000

I wonder how much of the carcass paintings might be literal recreation, for example, though not a subject matter expert, dead animals seen on the side of the road almost universally have their mouths open. On the other hand, maybe that is one reason for the choice of subject.

By: Tree Smith

Tree Smith — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:03:16 +0000

-crickets-

By: Steve Durbin

Steve Durbin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:28:32 +0000

Hmmm, it doesn’t seem to be working for me right now. I do see a link to do editing, but then I get a Page not Found error. I’ll see if I can figure it out in the next day or so…

By: Steve Durbin

Steve Durbin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:24:33 +0000

I don’t remember that editing capability, but it turns out there is a plug-in that enables it. I’m trying it out now, so let me know if you have any problems with it. It should allow editing your own comments for up to 30 minutes.

By: Birgit Zipser

Birgit Zipser — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:16:22 +0000

Tree,

While it is charming what you wrote, you may have wanted to change it. There used to be 20 or 30 min to change a comment. I will ask Steve about it.

By: Tree Smith

Tree Smith — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:46:31 +0000

Well, there is that…