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Zachari Logan
Zachari Logan (born 1980 Saskatoon) is a Canadian visual artist working in drawing, ceramics and related installation practices. Logan is known for his monumentally-scaled pastel drawings and intimate blue and red pencil drawings on Mylar depicting flora, wildlife and figures. His work intersects themes of selfhood, sexuality, queerness and memory with a focus on human relationships with the natural world. He often makes historical art references to artists and particular works of art, most notably the 18th century artist Mary Delany, 16th century Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and 15th century The Hunt of the Unicorn, Unicorn Tapestries. Logan attended the University of Saskatchewan. In 2014 Logan received the Lieutenant Governor's Arts Award for "emerging artist". In 2021 his artist's book, ''A Natural History of Unnatural Things'', was published by the Radiant Press. Artist in residence Logan was an artist in Residence at the Tom Thomson Shack on commission by the McMic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photorealism
Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can be used broadly to describe artworks in many different media, it is also used to refer specifically to a group of paintings and painters of the American art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. History Origins As a full-fledged art movement, Photorealism evolved from Pop ArtLindey (1980), pp. 27–33.Meisel and Chase (2002), pp. 14–15. Nochlin, Linda, "The Realist Criminal and the Abstract Law II", ''Art In America.'' 61 (November–December 1973), p. 98. and as a counter to Abstract Expressionism as well as Minimalist art movementsBattock, Gregory. Preface to Meisel, Louis K. (1980), ''Photorealism''. New York:Abrams. pp. 8–10 in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States. Photorealists use a photograph o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
