Exploring everyday landscapes in an uncommon way.
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Are Artists Workers? A New Deal for American Realism and Landscape Painting
The paintings that come from the 1930s spurred the American Realism and Social Realism movements in painting. Characterized by regional depictions of everyday life in America, and guided by a lack of mobility, the artists turned away from the Avant guard of Europe, creating a distinctive American style.
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The Unexamined Parts of Our Lives: The suburban landscape paintings of Michael Ward
Michael Ward explained that he likes “depicting the things that we see every day and usually don’t pay much attention to – houses, storefronts, and urban scenes. It’s that unexamined part of our life.” Ward says that since he was a young boy, he has taken pictures of houses and aspects of the everyday landscape that interest him. That collection, from which he paints, continues to grow. Over the decades, his paintings reveal a layering of time.
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The Suburbs as Our Collective Human Experience: The landscape paintings of Ericka Sobrack
The suburban environment is a perfect place to start a story because “everybody can read it”, says hyperrealist painter Ericka Sobrack. “I think it’s the closest we can get to recognizing some sort of collective human experience.” Sobrack believes that the acceptability and common understanding of the suburbs allows viewers to take in the depth of her paintings more easily. Her visual narratives explore the isolation and loneliness of suburban life, the safety and threat within these spaces, and the instances that disrupt the American dream.
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