John Currin
John Currin (born September 19, 1962 in Boulder , Colorado ) is an American painter. He attended Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University .
Currin's style is partly based on works of the Renaissance - the similarity to the works of Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. is clearly noticeable in some of his pictures - partly in modern magazines, where he often grotesquely exaggerates the proportions of the human body. His paintings can u. a. at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Institution . Currin's works now fetch top prices of up to $ 5,458,500 ( Nice 'n Easy, Sotheby’s , November 2008).
In 2009, John Currin was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design .
Individual evidence
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "C" / Currin, John, NA 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 17, 2015)
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| SURNAME | Currin, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulder , Colorado |