Beyond the Lens: Photorealist Perspectives on Looking, Seeing, and Painting
On view through February 5, 2024
Asheville Art Museum
Asheville, North Carolina
www.ashevilleart.org
Throughout the history of painting from the mid-19th century forward, artists have used an endless variety of approaches to record their world. “Beyond the Lens: Photorealist Perspectives on Looking, Seeing, and Painting” continues this thread, offering an opportunity to explore a singular and still forceful aspect of American art. Photorealism shares many of the approaches of historical and modernist realism, with a twist. The use of the camera as a basic tool for organizing visual information in advance of painterly expression is now quite common, but Photorealists embraced the camera as the focal point in their creative process.
Read more here: https://www.ashevilleart.org/exhibitions/beyond-the-lens/
[Image: Betrand Meniel, Chevy’s, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 59 × 83 inches. Collection of Louis K. & Susan Pear Meisel. © Bertrand Meniel]
