In a essay about the current Frank Auerbach retrospective at the Tate, entitled "Auerbach's defeat of death," (The New Criterion, 12/15), Dominic Green employs the artist's own words to make the following comment: "The fury of the paint is Auerbach's struggle to 'pin down something and take it out of time'--to fix the truth of the image and prepare if to for an independent future." Auerbach as Green points out, like Lucian Freud was a German Jew and "both were encouraged by Bacon and denied the ...
In a essay about the current Frank Auerbach retrospective at the Tate, entitled "Auerbach's defeat of death," (The New Criterion, 12/15), Dominic Green employs the artist's own words to make the following comment: "The fury of the paint is Auerbach's struggle to 'pin down something and take it out of time'--to fix the truth of the image and prepare if to for an independent future." Auerbach as Green points out, like Lucian Freud was a German Jew and "both were encouraged by Bacon and denied the ...
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