From Francis Bacon and Jenny Saville to Issy Wood and Yoko Ono; a new exhibition in New York explores how artists have depicted the human figure from behind over the decades
It takes chutzpah to make a huge painting of an ass in jeans, especially one about seven feet square. But to develop a viable practice out of up-close and unusual pictures like that, you have to possess something else entirely. Rare talent, for one. Meet the South Korean artist seok ho kang, who before his 2021 death at fifty spent about two decades creating these kind of works. Oozing piquant psychic sensations and toying with portraiture’s codes, they are unforgettable.The artist used both photos that he took and ones that he cribbed from the media, cropping each one tightly around a body and