![]() He has a background in advertising but left his office job in 1972 to pursue his artistic career full-time. It went against all of my art school training…some people were upset by what I was doing and said ‘it's not art, it can't possibly be art.’ That gave me encouragement in a perverse way, because I was delighted to be doing something that was really upsetting people… I was having a hell of a lot of fun.”Ī post shared by Realism Oil Paintings painter John Baeder is considered one of the second-generation Photorealist artists. “To copy a photograph literally was considered a bad thing to do. “It occurred to me that projecting and tracing the photograph instead of copying it freehand would be even more shocking,” said Goings. ![]() His polished paintings were sometimes criticized for lacking artistic expression, but this only spurred on the artist more. From classic cars and pickup trucks to hamburger stands and diners, he captures everyday American life with precise, hyper-realistic detail. Although he began his artistic career by experimenting with the painterly style of the Abstract Expressionist movement, he soon moved on to his distinct realism style. Sarah Bird currently lives with her husband, the writer Nick Neely and two small children in the Wood River Valley of Idaho, near Sun Valley, She is the recipient of a 2017 Idaho Arts Grant, her paintings have been shown in Massachsetts, New York, Los Angeles, and Block Island, Rhode Island.A post shared by Lauren□ Goings was an American painter who captured the working-class lifestyle. I am glad to have arrived in inspiring Idaho where the natural world is everything. My painting entitled Croy Canyon is a collection of layered plants from walks in my home canyon over the course of a summer. Sometimes they are evolving compositions – I layer my more perishable subjects over one another as I paint. Paintings come from any area of my life and are reflections of my preoccupations or my responses to the simplest of sensations. ![]() Many of my paintings contain one or two objects (like Bread, 2012) – as much as I feel that I can authentically balance – but they are starting to become more complex (like Tiny Fruits, 2016).Ĭurrently my work takes two general forms, either traditional, altaresque still lives of natural objects on cloth, or “foliage paintings”: wilder still lives of plants, leaves, and branches on a dark background, which I see as a cross-pollination between landscape and still life. Since I realized that I was capable of producing paintings that contain objects, I have focused on creating compositions that have the most richness and sense of meaning that I can with the simplest of subjects. ![]() The painting is the richest type of object I can think of – particularly a realist painting – because it is an object that contains the image and illusion of other objects. ![]() I am influenced by realist painters like Claudio Bravo and Antonio Lopez Garcia, but am even more affected by older artists like Adrian Coorte, Jan van Eyck, and Giovanni Bellini. Now I am exploring the more intimate landscapes of still life, a poetic genre. This admiration drew me to study traditional oil painting techniques at the Grand Central Academy, where for four years I studied full-time with a group of contemporary realist painters led by Jacob Collins. Originally motivated to express the simplicity and fullness of my childhood landscape in New England, I developed a reverence for the skills of the Hudson River School painters who brought oil painting into the outdoors, conveying unparalleled quantities of space on canvas. ![]()
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