Soutine artist biography

Summary of Chaïm Soutine

Increasingly becoming a household name, Chaïm Soutine's work transcends the movements that dominated the avant-garde during his lifetime. He chose to eschew the dominant early-20^th-century avant-garde trends of Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, and Futurism in favor of a more traditional approach, honing his skills as a portraitist, landscapist and painter of still lifes.

His paintings went on to influence some of the most radical and avant-garde artists of subsequent generations. His impasto technique, which he developed to the point of mastery, combined with a highly accomplished use of color and free, gestural brushwork equally sparked the interest of the postwar Action Painters including Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock and their realist counterparts in the UK, such as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.

Accomplishments

• Soutine looked to established masters like Rembrandt van Rijn and Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin for inspiration, often referencing su