Richard Estes (painter)

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Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932 in Kewanee , Illinois ) is an American painter who started out from photorealism .

Life

He studied at a classical academy in Chicago . His career soon led him to New York, where he began painting photos in the 1950s. Impressed by Andy Warhol's Pop Art , Estes developed an extremely detailed and naturalistic style of painting. Its salient feature is the trompe-l'oeil- like painting that reproduces every detail.

He mainly paints his own photographs, which he initially took from advertisements, posters and advertising. Later (from 1967) also of streets and cityscapes as well as reflections. In the 1970s and 1980s his interest shifted noticeably to the city. Estes assembles a new way of seeing reality by painting photo-realistically, but composing the scenery freely. Even the most realistic rendering is a fiction , since it is a construction of different views of one and the same view. The places and streets are still recognizable and localizable. So there is a representation, de-construction and re-construction of the image content. The street scenes in which no people can be seen are striking. Estes paints the hustle and bustle of the city of New York free of people, which gives the pictures an eerie calm. From the 1980s onwards, Estes began to paint more and more panoramas.

Richard Estes had his first solo exhibition in 1968 in New York at the Allan Stone Gallery.

In 1972 Richard Estes participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Realism department .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nationalacademy.org: National Academicians: Estes, Richard NA 1984 ( Memento of May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Estes, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kewanee , Illinois