Chaïm Soutine: A World in Flux | Louisiana Channel

“His paintings are not image-based at all. They are like real living things.“ – Dana Schutz, artist Few artists leave a permanent mark on art history. One of these is Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943). Born into a poor family in a shtetl near Minsk in present-day Belarus, Soutine moved to Paris in 1913 to join the myriad of artists who lived in Paris during the nineteen-twenties. Soutine was an outsider who stood out from the crowd, going against the dominant trends toward abstraction; he painted his immediate surroundings and people who, like him, found themselves on the lowest rung of society. Today, Soutine is known as an “artist’s artist“; a prolific and influential painter whose work left an indelible mark on the world of art. Soutine’s unique style and ability to capture raw emotion on canvas made him a source of inspiration for fellow artists, including the artist group CoBrA, and the School of London, who chose Soutine as a model of inspiration. Other artists who took