Sour about Auerbach at Tate Britain
Would I (to put it crudely)
“get” Auerbach when I visited the exhibition at the Tate? Or would I come out
unmoved and perplexed, as on the few occasions I’ve come across his work (there
are a couple in the Courtauld Gallery)?
I’m afraid I did not get it.
I find Auerbach’s paintings of landscapes and urban places (usually Camden
Town) confusing and lacking in feeling; his paintings of models (usually heads)
sometimes ghastly.
