New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting Graves David
New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting Graves David Art today can be whatever one wants it to be: a rotting cadaver, a photograph of someone else's photograph, a banana... Today, a group of 20…
Specifikacia New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting Graves David
New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting Graves David
Art today can be whatever one wants it to be: a rotting cadaver, a photograph of someone else's photograph, a banana... Today, a group of 20 or so remarkable painters have revived a fascinating style of realistic painting, and in Israel of all places, where realistic art has never played any significant role. In this post-modern age of post-truth, of social media and the selfie, when everyone has a high-resolution digital camera at their fingertips, one wonders what would possess a talented artist to sit for days, weeks, often months, to paint a portrait of a friend or a landscape of home.
This book offers an initial explanation as to what these artists are doing, and how they are doing Their brand of realism is not mundane photographic realism, but rather it is an intensified sort of realism, a kind of hyper-realism.