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Richenda
1993 · Graphite on paper
22 1/4 × 17 3/4 in. (56.5 × 45.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Euan Uglow
1932
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Euan Uglow: An Arc from the Eye
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Euan Uglow is a British painter whose nude and still life compositions are constructed through meticulous measurement and geometric marking on the canvas surface. Working from a method developed by his teacher William Coldstream, Uglow treats the act of sight itself as a disciplined visual problem, inscribing proportional relationships directly into the paint. His practice rejects both gestural expressionism and illusionistic finish, instead presenting the mechanics of observation as integral to the work's meaning. Based in London, Uglow's restrained palette and emphasis on measured construction position his work as a rigorous alternative to the dominant painterly modes of the postwar period.
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