Descripción de la Exposición
Fotorealism: The Sydney and Wanda Besthoff Collection presenta la colección de pintura hiperrealista de Sydney y Walda Besthoff, posiblemente una de las mejores colecciones fotorrealistas en los Estados Unidos, con sede en Nueva Orleans, con 78 obras de la década de 1960 con los últimos años. La colección hiperrealista creada por Sydney y Walda Besthoff abarca una amplia gama de obras de arte desde 1969 hasta 2013, incluyendo a muchos de los artistas asociados con la primera ola de fotorealismo a finales de 1960 y principios de 1970, tales como renombrados artistas Chuck Close, Richard Estes, y John DeAndrea, a los artistas más jóvenes que empujan los límites de fotorealismo en los últimos años.
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The New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to be organizing Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, the most extensive presentation to-date of the Photorealist painting collection of Sydney and Walda Besthoff. Presented during the fall of 2014, this exhibition will highlight one of the finest photorealist collections in the United States, based in New Orleans, featuring 78 works from the late 1960s to recent years. The Photorealist collection built by Sydney and Walda Besthoff encompasses a wide range of artworks from 1969 to 2013, including many of the artists associated with the first wave of Photorealism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, such as renowned artists Chuck Close, Richard Estes, and John DeAndrea, to younger artists pushing the boundaries of Photorealism in recent years. The collection also features a variety of enticing subject matter, from detailed cityscapes and portraits, to convincingly real close-ups of objects such as motorcycles, cars, toys, fruit, and flowers.
Photorealism is loosely defined as painting that is based upon the precise replication of a photograph. This distinction is key in distinguishing Photorealist painting from trompe l’oeil (“fool the eye”) paintings, which convincingly replicate scenes or people as they appear in life. A Photorealist painting is not simply “lifelike,” it is a translation of a photograph (or several photographs) into a painted image. Photorealism is a process of “seeing” with the gaze of the camera and a completed photograph in mind, an attribute that makes it relevant to discussions on human perception today.
This exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog titled Photorealism: Beginnings to Today, published in November 2014 with Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers. The catalog chronicles the development of the Besthoff collection, and explores the meaning of Photorealism and its unique relationship to photography. Together this exhibition and publication will inspire a generation of viewers interested in discovering this exceptional and distinctive genre.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
