In Concrete Cabin (1994), one of Doig’s many depictions of Le Corbusier’s modernist apartment buildings, Doig depicts the pristine architectural monument against a dense, ominous forest, creating an uncanny tension that is integral to Doig’s work.

On the other hand, many experts and critics describe his work as figurative art. This amazing painting was sold for $25,925,000 at Christie’s New York in 2015. The idea was the trees were illuminated by city light or artificial light from afar - I had just read Don Delillo's White Noise (1985) that influenced the light in these paintings as well."

Doig said: "The tree line is a mixture of what I could see from my working space in my parent's barn and other sketches I made of northern-looking pines and dying trees. Click HERE to see a list of all the art analyses on Kweiseye to date. In contrast, Postmodernism presented the unpresentable as a representation of itself. Rather, it’s a self-conscious construct based on a still taken from the 1980s film. Thus the painting isn’t an existential discussion about isolation but rather one that explores the works’ process of making and the viewer’s role in looking at it.

I’ve spent the last few days listening to some new music, thinking whilst Kate Tempest & Akira Kosemura knock it out of their respective parks, about variances between painting & music.

Peter Doig was born in Scotland in 1959 but would grow up in Canada. This, then, is less a painting that addresses the heart but one that knowingly speaks to the eye and the mind, reminding us of the seams of understanding from both the artist’s craft and the history of painting that have gone into its making. But for those growing up in the 70s and 80s, Modernist abstraction began to seem suggestive of bourgeois idealism and macho mystification. Doig was fascinated by the use of reflection in film, which is often used to represent an entrance point into another world.

Executed on a vast, immersive scale, Pine House (Rooms for Rent), painted in 1994, represents one of Peter Doig’s most important works. The boy skewered between two certainties amid his contemplation. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. Rugged individualism in both economic and social affairs had become synonymous with the expression of an ‘unrestrained self’ that dominated culture. This was an auction record for a living European artist at that time. Doig creates what we do not remember, nor even imagine.

A single ghostly vessel seemingly hovers above the glassy surface of a pool of water and serves as a clear form amidst a contrastingly indistinct foreground.

The canvas depicts three young men, standing in front of the ocean as the rising moon or setting sun brightens the horizon. Canoes have long been used to symbolize Doig's childhood home, Canada, in art and imagery, but Doig also favors boats as they create a suggestion of hidden depths.

A new song is one heard new in so many ways, each return finding new ideas creeping out from the woodwork & its fretboard. His mouth is open as if he is calling out. [Hand Sanitizer] The snowflakes are both figurative and abstract, and play with mark-making techniques to show how a painter might think about both snow (descriptively) and the colored dots of an abstract composition (formally). ‘Blotter’ seems aware of this, referring within its title both to, as Doig put it, ‘the notion of being absorbed into a place, but also to the process through which the painting developed: soaking paint into the canvas’. Picking the two paintings today for Peter Doig was tough as the incredibly accomplished artist (His 2007 work White Canoe selling at Sothebys for a then European living record of $11.3 million) has a … A single ghostly vessel seemingly hovers above the glassy surface of a pool of water and serves as a clear form amidst a contrastingly indistinct foreground. The circle also resonates with a number of theatrical and film devices: the spotlight, camera lens, etc.

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

Songs are chases, lyrics and choruses hanging ephemera that soon becomes something else entirely. It’s about the idea of getting absorbed into them, so you get physically lost.” (Peter Doig in Exhibition Catalogue, Berlin, Contemporary Fine Arts; London, Victoria Miro Gallery, Peter Doig: Blotter, 1995, p. 10) It is the monumental size and wall power of White Canoe which first draws you into its dream-like world.