Lisa Yuskavage's Paintings

Lisa Yuskavage's genius, in the view of admirers of the nude genre, is that she was able to take the most weary subject in the history of art - female nudity - and fill it with new freshness and worth. Each work is a challenge to a conversation about the significance, or lack thereof, of nudes in modern art. Strange relationships, forms, and images are intertwined with a naturally unstable setting. Is it a vision or a dream?

Today, she is regarded as one of the most important postwar painters; her work Honeymoon (1998) was sold for $1 million at Sotheby's in New York in May of this year.

Although it appears to be unremarkable at first look, Lisa Yuskavage's artistic approach r You will locate the preceding ones. Isolation of the figure and creation of the figure are both contemplative. The artist tells harrowing stories about the nature of spectatorship or voyeurism. Yuskavage's work is influenced by antecedents such as Elizabeth Peyton and Francis Bacon, yet the artist achieves a high degree of dichotomy between high and low, harmony and dissonance, holy and profane.