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To start, Doig took a photo of his brother on ice onto which he had pumped water to create more interesting and vivid reflections.

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Peter Doig (/ ˈ d ɔɪ ɡ / DOYG; born 17 April ) [1] is a painter of Scottish nationality, but who spent a nomadic childhood between Trinidad, Canada, and Britain.

Summary of Peter Doig

Peter Doig went from being an artist whose peers were too embarrassed to show alongside him, to possibly the most internationally loved painter of our time. He is a leading figure in contemporary art's 'return to painting' and is particularly responsible for re-inserting magic, narrative, and lyricism into painting today.

Doig is a meticulous colorist, who often uses uneasy, disquieting color combinations to create simultaneously charming and foreboding landscape paintings. Doig similarly combines seemingly incongruous, disparate reference points in his work often, inserting images from his own lived experience, film, art, and literary histories together in one composition.

Accomplishments

Doig's paintings almost always contain human figures, although they are often partly obscured, hidden, or dwarfed by their environment. He rejects the split between figurative and abstract painting, however, and uses recognizable tropes of abstract painting - such as
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Doig is a meticulous colorist, who often uses uneasy, disquieting color combinations to create simultaneously charming and foreboding landscape paintings.

Peter Doig, Reflection ( What does you soul look like), 1996

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To start, Doig took a photo of his brother on ice onto which he had pumped water to create more interesting and vivid reflections.

peter doig influences	A leading figure in the revival of figurative painting, Peter Doig (born in Edimbourg in 1959) has given the 21 st century some of its newest icons.
peter doig children	Peter Doig (/ ˈ d ɔɪ ɡ / DOYG; born 17 April 1959) [1] is a painter of Scottish nationality, but who spent a nomadic childhood between Trinidad, Canada, and Britain.
peter doig wife	Born in Edinburgh in 1959, Doig moved to Trinidad as a baby, yet grew up mostly in Canada.

Peter Doig's Art For Sale, Exhibitions & Biography - Ocula

Born in in Edinburg, Scotland, Peter Doig is a contemporary painter living and working in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.