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Richard Estes: Voyages
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COVER: Staten Island Ferry Docking Manhattan, 2008, Oil on panel, 23 1/8 x 16 inches
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A founder of the international photo-realist movement in the 1960s, Richard Estes has been painting representations of his surrounding for almost six decades. Estes’ oil paintings create an illusion of observable reality, appearing at first glance to be a photograph. Working from snapshots that he has taken on his travels as “studies,” Estes takes artistic liberties in the final composition by moving or removing objects and people, making each scene depicted his own. He captures light, texture, and the sublimity of nature in a way that few painters before have been able to accomplish. Estes’ treatment of architectural lines, reflections, and perspective give the viewer pause as they contemplate how meticulously the artist applied paint to every square inch. Adelson Galleries is proud to pre
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Summary of Richard Estes
When Richard Estes arrived on the New York art en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film, Abstract Expressionism had largely run its course. In contrast to the acutely personal, emotional, unstructured, and (some would contend) self-indulgent aesthetic of The New York School, Estes among others introduced a struktur of painting that emphasized control and an almost machine-like noggrannhet. In part, his style emphasized the craft of painting, which was huvud to the hard-edged, jaw-dropping verisimilitude of photorealistic art. Artists like Estes, Audrey Flack, Chuck Close, and Ralph Goings abandoned the drama of gestural painting and promoted a kind of hyper-realism that seemed more visually descriptive of the increasingly high-tech, post-war age. For Estes, the appeal of the gleaming, reflective surfaces of New York City were irresistible. His paintings, composites of multiple photographs, suggest that the modern world fryst vatten a sharply articulated one of clean, intersecting lines: orderly and system
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Expect the Unexpected
Richard Estes: Keeping it real
TKTS Line, a 2005 painting, yes painting, by Richard Estes.
Richard Estes is not a photographer, he just plays one in the art world. His paintings are so amazingly real, I dare you not to think they’re snapshots at first glance.
Estes, who will turn 82 in May, is one of the founders of the photo-realism art movement. Using his own photos as models, his work focuses primarily on New York City landscapes.
Helene’s Florist, 1971
I first discovered the art of Richard Estes in 1980 when I was a student at Boston University. While working at the school’s library, I came across a book of Estes’ works. “Some nice photos of New York in this one,” I said to my friend Regina Loughran (who would later serve as my maid of honor). Regina laughed. “Those aren’t photos,” she said knowingly.
Looking closer, I was in complete shock and immense awe as I realized what she meant. Thes