Clement Greenberg called this artist’s work “more like life itself than like visual art.” Many of this artist’s paintings are made on top of 19th century canvases he purchased for cheap at flea markets. A portrait by this artist where a young boy in a bright red uniform holds his hands to his hips is at the center of Ellen Umanksy’s novel The Fortunate Ones and is titled The Bellhop. After an extensive collection of this artist’s paintings owned by gallerist-turned-politician Viktor (*) Babariko was seized, a 1920s portrait that he painted of a model crossing her arms became a protest symbol against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. For his neighbors’ sake, this artist agreed to use formaldehyde to stop the stench from the studio in which he painted his most common artistic subject. For 10 points, name this Belarussian-Jewish Expressionist noted for the thick brushwork on his paintings of rotting meat. ■END■
ANSWER: Chaim Soutine [or Chaim-Iche Solomonovich Sutin]
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