Country: Russian-born, later French (historical context)

Artist

Chaim Soutine

Chaim Soutine stands as one of the most visceral, emotionally charged, and uncompromising painters of the 20th century. Few artists have pushed paint to such extremes of intensity, distortion, and raw feeling. Soutine did not paint what he saw—he painted what he felt, twisting form, color, and anatomy into convulsions of inner life. His paintings…