Photo courtesy of Robert Neal
There is a fundamental irony in having trained as a classical painter in the later part of the 20th Century. I have grown up with television, mass media and Hollywood. I am well aware of the image producing capabilities of the computer and the video recorder. It has also been said that photography co-opted the traditional function of realist painters in the 19th Century, which was to make faithful renditions of reality.
As a contemporary realist painter, I think that a painting
should confront us with our notions of reality. My paintings are completely
imaginary. I am not painting situations that actually exist; they are meant
to be metaphorical, transcendent of themselves, transformative and fictional.
I use no photographs, no models, no copy machines to create the work. This
is where I believe there is a departure between painting, which is based
on technique and art, which is transcendent. The struggle is for me to
combine the two.
Joel Coplin Fine Art Studio Online
East Side Art & ESA Gallery
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Mesa, Arizona 85207 USA
(West of Crismon Road)
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