Archives for the ‘realism’ Category

Sam Taylor-Wood

Sam Taylor Wood Stills from Still Life. “Still Life is one of the most classical works of contemporary art I know. It inscribes itself in art history with hardly any commentary. This is not just a Still Life. It is a vanitas, a particular type of still life developed in the 16th and 17th centuries […]

Roula Partheniou

Roula Partheniou Work from Handmade Readymade, Bookstall, and Works, Works I. The Handmade Readymade project is an ongoing series of canvases painted to resemble books. The paintings function as trompe l’oeil in the round, as text works, found poetry, as constructed mini-narratives and as stand-ins for grand universal themes. An exercise in scale, appropriation and […]