Roger Dean’s wildly popular art is Xx instantly recognizable from the I covers of classic rock albums, and as the inspiration of the landscapes of the blockbuster movie Avatar, and has been published as millions of posters and books. His beautiful paintings were contemptuously brushed away as proletarian fantasy by the bony aestheticians of the old New York hegemony, but when it is properly placed in the context of art history and globalization, it becomes clear that his work captures perfectly the zeitgeist of our cross-cultural time. His career as a successful professional painter began in the 1960s, as post-modern artists first began challenging the power of the New York avant-garde, and began combining creative techniques and compositional crafts gathered from traditions around the globe into new hybrid forms.
As a young man, Dean lived in Hong Kong, where he became familiar with the ancient Chinese compositional technique known as shan shui hua, which reached its peak during the Song dynasty between 960 and 1279 CE. He has been completely consistent to its use throughout his career. The delicate, smoky atmospheric perspective of Song landscape paintings is created by carefully balancing three areas of the composition—the near, the middle and the far. The far” is the softest edged part of the composition, at the top of the image. The middle ground is clearer, but detail is most crisp in the foreground. As well as using the conventions of shan shui hua, Dean is fond of painting unusually exaggerated geological formations, developing them from the characteristic mythic mountains of Chinese landscape paintings like Shen Zhou’s exquisite Ming dynasty scroll, Lofty Mount Lu, of 1467.
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Dream-like Aura
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Through the Mirror
It’s been said that art is a mirror for the person looking into it. The viewer sees themselves. Even when the subject doesn’t look like them, or is even human, or is even living. Artists may be painting very specific things from their own being, but the viewer can instantly rewire that to fit their lives with just one glance.
Epic Proportions
Grrowing up on a farm in West Texas, Michael Tole was perusing his family's 1956 Collier's Encyclopedia when the color plates of Baroque paintings caught his attention. Today, he paints inventive Baroque and Rococo figurative extravaganzas that look like they could be part of a Renaissance art collection.
Roadside America
This January, Altamira Fine Art will be hosting a solo exhibition for Scottsdale, Arizona-based artist Geoffrey Gersten.
Close to Home
For Spencer Simmons, 2018 was a milestone year. Only 24 at the time and a few years after earning a fine art degree from Arizona State University, Simmons won the Donald Jurney Traveling Fellowship which enabled him to paint and study in Europe for several months.
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New England artist Casey Chalem Anderson is captivated by the idea of place.
Face to Face
For well over a month, 33 Contemporary Gallery, in collaboration with 33PA, is hosting a group show at its Palm Beach County, Florida, showroom, that explores modern approaches to the timeless genre of portraiture. Opening January 9 with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., and running through February 28, the show will feature 12-by-12-inch portraits by talented members of the PoetsArtists community. For those who can't attend in person, the exhibition will also be online on Artsy for its duration.
Fresh Energy
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A Historic Tradition
Salmagundi Club presents the 148th annual exhibition of works in black and white.
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