Peter Doig: A Metamodernistic And Contemporary Artist

Peter Doig is a metamodernistic and contemporary painter who was born in Edinburg, Scotland and raised in Canada. He has studied at many fine schools of art like that of Wimbledon and St. Martins, and ultimately stopped studying after having received a master’s degree from the Chelsea School of Art in London. It is within his Canadian and European roots and visits to Trinidad that he draws inspiration. Some of his inspiration is drawn from the Canadian outdoors, international films, popular culture, and past artist’s works like that of Edvard Munich and Gustav Klimt. It is through these inspirations that Peter Doig creates moderately abstract landscape paintings of naturalistic and modern scenery. The context of his art is typically expressing