Luc Tuymans

Tuymans emerged in at a time when there were not many new contemporary painters making, or using imagistic paintings. Tuymans' subjects range from major historical events, such as the Holocaust or the politics of the Belgian Congo, to the inconsequential and banal: wallpaper patterns, Christmas decorations, everyday objects. Tuyman's practice is the reliance on existing visual materials, including drawings, photographs, and film stills. He started to use Polaroids in 1995. The artist's sparsely-colored, figurative are typically painted with fleet brush strokes of wet paint on wet paint on a modest scale and derive their subjects from pre-existing imagery which includes photographs and video stills, and often appear slightly out-of-focus. The blurriness is actually sharp.

The reason i like his works is because , they give off a ghostly feel, and a faded theme as well. I find it really interesting that how something that sounds simple, looks simple , but is doing it is actually hard.