In Minotaur Surprised while Eating of 1986-7 the beast, half-man, half-animal, is shown devouring a joint of human flesh, morsels of which hang down from his bovine jaw. He glances out at us with a look of apprehension in his piercing eyes, which seem as human as his hands.
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Auerbach’s Kerygma by Peter Fuller /
In honor of the Frank Auerbach's major retrospective currently on at the TATE in London, which runs until March 2016, I'm publishing here some of my father's articles on Auerbach. During the 80s Peter referenced Auerbach as one of the best British of the 20th Century. It was because Auerbach looked out at the world, transformed it with his imagination into a beautiful experience unique only to him and gave us a window to that experience on the canvas "The Aesthetic Dimension".
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