Estes, Richard - Fotorealismo
Nedick's, 1970
Oil on canvas
121,9 x 167,6 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
People's Flowers, 1971
Oil on canvas
153 x 101,2 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Circus Drive-In, 1971
Oil on canvas
43,2 x 61 cm
Hoffmann Collection, Chicago
Ten Doors, 1972
Color serigraph
14 1/2 x 21 3/8 in. (37.0 x 54.3 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Bus reflections, 1972
Oil on canvas
101,6 x 132,1cm,
Private collection
Urban Landscape 1, 1972
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Art, San Francisco
Façade, 1974
Oil on canvas
Private collection
Cafe Express, 1975
Oil on canvas
The Art Institute of Chicago
Central Savings, 1975
Oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Mayflower, 1994
Oil on canvas
101 x 138 cm
Lunch Specials, 2001
Oil on canvas
89 x 137 cm
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Será real ou será arte? As cenas de rua, cheias de palcares publicitários, celebram a cultura popular americana. O seu realismo espantoso surpreende-nos e encanta-nos. Estes não criou os temas - limitou-se a fotografá-los e depois reproduzi-los exactamente como apareciam na fotografia. O pintor quer retratar um mundo que é familiar a milhões de americanos. E foi assim que o quotidiano se transformou em arte. Richard Estes nasceu em Enanston (EUA) em 1936.
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"I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when its finished. It’s really not that way at all. Usually it's a pretty calculated, sustained, and slow process by which you develop something. The effect can be one of spontaneity, but that’s part of the artistry. An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he’s expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it. I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you’re always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it’s done with the head."
Richard Estes
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