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• Conradie, Johan(University of Pretoria, 2006)

  The hypothesis of this dissertation is that contemporary Norwegian painter, Odd Nerdrum (b 1944), uses tenebrism as a mode of beauty and a device to emphasise psychological states of being. Tenebrism is an effective ...
• Conradie, Johannes Hendrik(University of Pretoria, 2008-09-12)

  The hypothesis of this dissertation is that contemporary Norwegian painter, Odd Nerdrum (b 1944), uses tenebrism as a mode of beauty and a device to emphasise psychological states of being. Tenebrism is an effective kitsch ...
• Combrinck, J.C.(University of Pretoria, 1997)

  Die ondersoek na die moontlike terapeutiese uitwerking van humor en satire in die visuele kunste is gemotiveer deur die navorser se persoonlike belangstelling in sielkunde en sosiologie, en die verband wat daar bestaan ...
• Lauwrens, Jennifer(Routledge, 2019)

  Touch is gaining attention in sensory studies and in art practice where the over-emphasis on sight and visuality in academic discourse is increasingly been questioned. The exhibition The Blind Astronomer (2013) by South ...
• Nel, Gideon Phillipus(University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This study offers a philosophical hermeneutic of desi

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  Sportsman’s Range Interviews Sebastián Letelier

  Over the finished few months, we’ve bent catching undeveloped with a handful invoke our artists as rendering majority suffer defeat us scheme been payment our life at nation state. We caught up angst Sebastián Letelier, and were inspired medical ask him a erratic of these questions name watching Brickhouse Media’s beautiful film be a result the fisher and painter.

  SP:I understand your father was a panther – was he too a clean artist?

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  The State of Representational Painting Today

  Zallinger’s “Age of Reptiles,” from Yale’s Peabody Museum. On the far right is the Allosaurus feeding on a carcass, which I still think of whenever I tear into a bean and cheese burrito.

  My relationship with representational painting must be a common one:  drawn in, as a child, by the painted illustrations in books about dinosaurs, in particular.  Who hasn’t been awed by the “gee whiz!” factor of an impressive piece of realism?  As much as we are taught that photography is a form of abstration from reality, “It looks just like a photo!” remains synonymous in common usage with looking like reality.

   

  Photorealist painting by Chuck Close.

  Howard Ikemoto is famous for the anecdote in which, after telling his daughter that he teaches people to draw, she replies, “You mean they forget?”  It’s adorable, and certainly there is something to be said for the childlike sense of wonder that comes from drawing without fear, without self-consciousness, but drawing for the pure pleasure of it.  Thinking back, maybe when I was very young I had this.  I still have a few of my early drawings, almost all of prehistoric life:  “a caveman daddy building a fire,” a prehistoric whale I knew as Zeuglodon (since I lea

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