Richard Estes - Pressing

ARTISTWidely considered one of the seminal American artists of the 20th century, Joseph Cornell pioneered

Considered a founder of the Photorealist movement, Richard Estes is best known for his paintings of city scenes in New York. Compiling his compositions from multiple source photographs, Estes reconstructs reality in highly convincing renderings. He often incorporates reflective surfaces, such as shop windows and shiny cars, yielding mirrored imagery that serves to enhance what the naked eye is capable of perceiving. In Double Self-Portrait (1976), for example, the artist and an entire street scene behind him are reflected in meticulous detail against the glass façade of a diner.Richard Estes:

Pressing

Date:1978

Medium: Acrylic on board

Dimensions: 19 1/2 × 13 in

49.5 × 33 cm

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Biography:

Considered a founder of the Photorealist movement, Richard Estes is best known for his paintings of city scenes in New York. Compiling his compositions from multiple source photographs, Estes reconstructs reality in highly convincing renderings. He often incorporates reflective surfaces, such as shop windows and shiny cars, yielding mirrored imagery that serves to enhance what the naked eye is capable of perceiving. In Double Self-Portrait (1976), for example, the artist and an entire street scene behind him are

reflected in meticulous detail against the glass façade of a diner.

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Statement:

Richard Estes is one of a very few painters from the original Photorealist movement of the 1960s and early ’70s who remains true to the precepts of the genre and has continued to thrive. Unlike those of many other practitioners of Photorealism, Hyperrealism or Super-realism, as the movement is variously termed, Estes’ photo-based works have never gone out of fashion.

http://artbooks.yupnet.org/2014/05/22/the-eye-man-an-interview-with-richard-estes-by-david-ebony/ Yale University Press May 22, 2014

David Ebony

My Connection:

An American artist best known for his photorealistic paintings and is actually considered one of the founders of photo realism. He specialized in reflective surfaces, everyday scenes and moment found throughout New York.

His ability to transform an everyday image into something spectacular by staying as true as possible to the picture is quite remarkable. Pressing is a beautiful example of his ability to attract the eye to something as unremarkable as a pressing machine shop window. The detail and unique perspective allows the viewer to see in a museum what he is able to interpret walking down the street.