'If you were to paint a portrait of Henry Taylor, you might start with his smile,' writes columnist cmonstah. 'The best depictions of Taylor, however, are self-portraits. The Los Angeles painter ... makes regular appearances in his own work.'
he carries the gaze of a worried parent as he stands in the company of his older children, Jade and Noah. In another, he scrutinizes Epic, his 2-year-old daughter with artist Liz Glynn, as she sits in a high chair — green peas dotting her bowl and the floor.
Like many Taylor portraits, it touches on multiple themes: the legacies of British painting and the politics of representation. It also draws from his life. The youngest of eight children born to a house painter and a domestic worker living in Oxnard, Taylor likes to refer to himself as “Henry the Eighth.”
,” which opened earlier this month, is the most extensive museum presentation of Taylor’s work to date, bringing together almost four decades of work: paintings, drawings, sculptures, painted objects and the sketches of patients he made when he worked as a psychiatric technician atThe Camarillo drawings are clear-eyed, without a lick of sensationalism, and foreshadow the painter Taylor ultimately became: someone known for frank, empathetic renderings of people across social strata.
Elsewhere, art history itself is up for dissection. Paintings might riff directly on Picasso’s bawdy “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” or Modigliani’s languorous nudes; others make subtler allusions. A 2006 canvas titled “Fatty” shows a man standing before a corner market wielding a can of Olde English as if it were a royal orb — homie as Holy Roman Emperor.
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