books0977:The Reader (2010). John Currin (American, born 1962). Oil on canvas. Currin’s
books0977: The Reader (2010). John Currin (American, born 1962). Oil on canvas. Currin’s technique is achieved through the scrutiny and emulation of the compositional devices, graphic rhythms and refined surfaces of sixteenth and seventeenth century Northern European painting, while his eroticized subjects exist at odds with the popular dialogue and politics of contemporary art. -- source link