Auerbach is a figurative painter, who focuses on portraits and city scenes in and around the area of London in which he lives. Auerbach is not an expressionist painter. His work is not concerned with finding a visual equivalent to an emotional or spiritual state that characterised the expressionist movement, rather it deals with the attempt to resolve the experience of being in the world in paint. In this the experience of the world is seen as essentially chaotic with the role of the artist being to impose an order upon that chaos and record that order in the painting.
Head of E.O.W 1955
Primrose Hill 1954/55
"If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you."
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