Richard Estes based his dazzling paintings of city streets on photographs.
used to say he took photographs to find out what things looked like photographed. The statement, as an expression of artistic motive, sounds unhelpful, until you register what wacky things photographs do to things we think we know — how almost nonchalantly they mug the mind’s prejudices.What’s the rationale, then, behind paintings of photographs? To see what photographs look like painted? Not exactly.
Paris on a gray day, when light is harmonized with its absence and nothing dares to be so crass as to flash. There’s something hypnotic here about the contrast between the adamantine, light-absorbing stone of the buildings and the languidly understated reflections that come off the parked cars . Solid and permanent meets insubstantial and illusory — and voilà! They all hit it off.Get up close and you see it’s all dun-colored paint applied in discreet patches of subtly altered hue and tone.
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