Tag: Paintings
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Macro Verse: The Paintings of Cinta Vidal Allow us To Become Gravity-Defying Voyeurs – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Vidal, as such, hopes that her paintings have the opportunity to hang in every possible alignment so that viewers have the chance to see the perspective of every figure. This total devotion to breeding empathy is the foundation of her art. Her prime directive is not creating versatile art, though that is a by-product. The read more
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Of Place & Time: The Narrative Paintings of Andrew Hem – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The paintings of Andrew Hem linger just left of reality. With his instantly recognizable style, Hem blends figurative painting and atmospheric landscapes, echoes of graffiti art and a deep understanding of color harmony. Rendering scenes both urban and rural, modern yet outside of time, he creates works that are a mix of realism and surrealism, read more
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Scratching the Surface: The Cinematic Paintings of Anna Weyant – Hi-Fructose Magazine
IT’S A SUBTLE MERGER OF REAL LIFE AND FICTION IMBUED WITH A DOSE OF SATIRE AND ABSURDIST HUMOR. In the press surrounding Weyant’s work, there’s often mention of similarities to artists of the Dutch Golden Age or contemporary artists like John Currin, but that seems to be scratching the surface of possible influences or visual read more
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The Peripheral Path: Paintings By Jean-Pierre Roy – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“I grew up with film, video games, and comic books as the primary source of my visual memory. While some of them have stood the test of time and have been considered classics of the genre or the medium, a lot of it was really just capital L Low art. It wasn’t until I started read more
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The Violence of Man: Cleon Peterson’s Bold & Brutal Paintings Depict Humanity’s Struggle For Power – Hi-Fructose Magazine
They would come to a show, turn around, and walk out, just completely offended.” When Peterson went to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, he was still in his teens. Myrtle Avenue was a pretty dark place—Peterson recalls, early on, seeing a man sitting in his car with his head blown off—but the darkness resonated with read more
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Organized Chaos: The Paintings of Joseph Lee – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“When it goes away, I have to hop on to something else so that at any point, I’m working on four or five paintings at a time bouncing around the studio.” While painting became a major part of Lee’s life, he didn’t leave acting. Most recently, he appeared in the film Searching and the Korean read more
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