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Kurt Kauper

first painting i looked at struck me as a 3rd wave feminist adaptation of James Whistler's 1st wave Symphony in White No. 2. aside from a visual/terminology pun (tan lines outline his symphony in white), he uses he elements of the whistler painting--the mirror that entraps the woman's domestic role (her mirror reflection looks painful and longing), the reduction of her identity to the beautiful objects around her like the china or japanese flowers--and completely inverts it. he changes her gender, doesn't try to conceal his identity (actor Cary Grant), or personality (characteristically debonair), and unleashes his passions by revealing the blazing fire, unlike whistler who obscures the fireplace with her virgin dress in which he acknowledges the repressed female sexuality

interesting use of curvilinear geometry to make use of motion in his paintings that otherwise feel like a still photograph from a time past.

smoothed out naked figures / realism / tilted picture plane feel like Philip Pearlstein's work

he also has some nice delicate mechanical drawings; you can imagine him transferring these visual studies onto larger canvas grids, about eight feet in height. i like when artists give the illusion of including the viewer into their private process of creating

magnify details by clicking paintings, would have missed orange sock reflection in 'Old Spice LIME talc for men'

Symphony in White No. 2 (James Whistler) - Cary Grant #1
After the Hunt (William Harnett) - Derek >>  feels like a similar still life arrangement on wooden panels in same color palette, 'before the game'. nice "sher-wood", derek!
Portrait of the Artist (Hockney) - Shaving Before the Game >> affectionate and plastic rendering of men (especially in profile) reminds me a little of hockney. shaving before the game is also my favorite painting of his

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