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New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting

New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting

Graves, David

Paperback

Folk & Outsider Art

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 1398437352
ISBN13: 9781398437357
Publisher: Austin Macauley
Published: Aug 18 2023
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Art today can be whatever one wants it to be: a rotting cadaver, a photograph of someone else's photograph, a banana... 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. 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. Their brand of realism is not mundane photographic realism, but rather it is an intensified sort of realism, a kind of hyper-realism. This book offers an initial explanation as to what these artists are doing, and how they are doing it.

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