From unmoving nudes in empty spaces to citrus fruits displayed with empty oyster shells and chicken eggs with best-before dates, Moscow-born artist Paul Feinstein s painting style is distinctive and unmistakable a grey, undefined background underpins one or several objects, carefully arranged and sensuously captured. Presenting still lifes and nudes produced by Feinstein between 2013 and 2015, this book explores how he transposes artistic traditions from the seventeenth-century to the present day, toying with the viewer s perceptions and blurring the boundaries between painter and model.
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