♥ a movement began in the late of 1960s
♥ evolved from pop art
♥ a genre of painting which cannot exist without photography
♥ direct copies of original photograph but usually will larger than the original one
♥ the style:
1. gather imagery & information with camera & photography
2. photograph slide developed
3. transfer image into canvas
♥ the painting appears to be very realistic like a photography
♥ Photorealist painters tended to imitate photographic images, often omitting or abstracting certain finite detail in order to maintain a consistent overall pictorial design.
♥ Photorealists frequently used a grid technique to enlarge a photograph and reduce each square to formal elements of design. Each grid was its own little work of art.
♥ Many of the Photorealists used the airbrush technique.
Richard Estes
♥ one of the founders of the International Photo-Realist movement in the late 1960s and 70s,
together with the painters Malcolm Morley, Chuck Close and Duane Hanson.
♥ early 1960s, most of his paintings were city dwellers that related to his daily activities
♥ around 1967, he started to paint storefronts and building with glass windows (reflected image included on these windows)
Ansonia (1977)
OLEO
48 X 60 inches
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
♥ He avoided using New York famous landmarks and habitually depicting urban landscapes
♥ He choose the images from the photographs that he took from different angles and light conditions at a particular scene that incorporated into the final painting.
"The reason I take a alot of photographs is to make up for the fact that one photograph really doesn't give me all the information I need. And painting is trickery because you can make people respond by guiding their eyes around the picture. The photograph doesn't do that because a camera doesn't have ideas. It can only reproduce." He said.
♥ He expanded the sensory range of the viewers in providing the fine details that are invisible to naked eyes
♥ He using acrylic paint as his usual medium, painted in layers, to give a rich saturation of color to create glossy finish of a photography.
Some of his paintings:
MURANO GLASS (1976)
OLEO
24 X 36 inches
The Art Institute of Chicago
SHOE OUTLET (1973)
OLEO
30 X 40 inches
John Belger
PEOPLE'S FLOWER (1971)
OLEO
60 X 40 inches
Baron Thyssen Collection
This is my analysis on the paintings of Richard Estes.
Elements of design:
· Line - The linear marks was made with brush and so the values of line is solid.
· Shape - The shape of the objects that painted are positive shapes while the space around the positive shape is negative shapes. The negative shapes in the design have alot of fine details and it's quite complicate.
· Direction All lines have direction. Horizontal suggests calmness, stability and tranquillity. Vertical gives a feeling of balance, formality and alertness. · Size -The size of the drawing goes narrow as it move to beyond.
· Texture is glossy where most of it is oil painting.
· Colour - Colour used tends to create emotion. Flat (analogous) colour used to create harmony.
· Tone - It consists of darkness and brightness where it contains of light and dark area in his painting.Principles of Design:
· Good Balance
· Gradation is static, It is usually starts from light to dark.
· Gradation is static, It is usually starts from light to dark.
· Repetition with variation makes the paintings more interesting. All the repetition elements involved different degree of variation.
· Contrast mostly in the direction of horizontal.
· It is Harmony where the similar elements or shapes combining.· Unity - the objects link to each other and the paintings looks smooth.
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