Chaim Soutine
Posted by Radical Jew on October 19, 2013
Chaim Soutine. Carcass of Beef, c 1924. Oil on canvas. Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA
Once I saw the village butcher slice the neck of a bird and drain the blood out of it. I wanted to cry out, but his joyful expression caught the sound in my throat… …This cry, I always feel it there. When, as a I drew a crude portrait of my professor, I tried to rid myself of this cry, but in vain. When I painted the beef carcass it was still this cry that I wanted to liberate. I have still not succeeded. –Chaim Soutine
