Chaïm Soutine: A World in Flux, Louisiana Channel

His paintings are not imagebased at all. They are like real living Dana Schutz, artist Few artists leave a permanent mark on art history. One of these is Chaïm Soutine (18931943). Born into a poor family in a shtetl near Minsk in presentday Belarus, Soutine moved to Paris in 1913 to join the myriad of artists who lived in Paris during the nineteentwenties. 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 artists 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