Henry
Taylor
Henry
Taylor
Taylor
Henry Taylor’s expressive figurative paintings on various media (from canvas to suitcases, bottles and cigarette packs) have made him one of America’s greatest contemporary painters.
He primarily does portraits. Whether they are people he knows, hospital patients, famous athletes or figures from popular culture, he paints all his models the same way, with brisk, thick brushstrokes, usually in bright colours. His portraits document life around him, but they do not boil down to the people depicted. Like poems, they suggest a whole narrative, a world where social and political issues affecting the African-American community are raised. The Black presence in the United States is one of his main concerns.
Some of Taylor's works in the Pinault Collection were exhibited for the first time at the "Debout !" (“Stand Up!”) show at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes.
He primarily does portraits. Whether they are people he knows, hospital patients, famous athletes or figures from popular culture, he paints all his models the same way, with brisk, thick brushstrokes, usually in bright colours. His portraits document life around him, but they do not boil down to the people depicted. Like poems, they suggest a whole narrative, a world where social and political issues affecting the African-American community are raised. The Black presence in the United States is one of his main concerns.
Some of Taylor's works in the Pinault Collection were exhibited for the first time at the "Debout !" (“Stand Up!”) show at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes.
