New art finds.

Feb 01, 2008 20:38

New art finds. (Well, new to me.) I was looking for ideas on how to approach a problem I'm having with something I'm working on, so i did a google image search for "traditional landscape." All of the stuff herein came up.

Interesting stuff here about the process of making a painting, by Richard Horvath of Australia.
I like how his work goes back and forth from being creamy and Impressionist-influenced to flat and breaking down the pictorial plan by using blotches, grids, or even mixed media, including the use of computer-generated images--sometimes within the same composition.



Shadows over Bass Meadows Boulevard,
Oil on canvas with texture mounted on framed panel
600 x 450 mm

Some other things that rock:

I came across this here. At first I thought it was a painting, but then I realized it was a photograph. I love it.



Martin Parr, New Brighton, 1986.
And now I'm getting introduced for the first time to the work of British photographer Martin Parr.



Martin Parr, from Common Sense  1995-1999



Martin Parr, Gas Pump (?)



Edward Hopper, Gas Pumps (1940)

And I can't believe I've never seen this before:


Ruth Bernhard, Easter Fantasy (1933)

Can anyone fall as hard for the west as a transplanted midwesterner? Check out the work of Carl Rowe.




Spring Green
Alkyd on canvas 
20" X 50"




Woodriver Valley
Alkyd on canvas 
24" X 50"
"As a transplanted Midwesterner, perhaps I see this land with greater intensity." --Carl Rowe

carl rowe, figure painting, ruth bernhard, photography, landscape painting, edward hopper, richard horvath, painting, art, australia, martin parr

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