Thursday, May 22, 2014

Brooklyn Bridge Goes To Portland

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This is not a photograph...
It is an oil painting
presently on exhibit
in Portland, Oregon.




Richard Estes
Brooklyn Bridge
(1993) 



Fifty of Estes' photorealist oil paintings are being exhibited,
including one featuring a boy in a bus and
a reflection of the Flatiron Building.































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6 comments:

  1. Nineteen ninety newyork sky
    Simply glowed from chrome, my!
    Theabault painted pie piled high
    Estes trained his brush on reali-eye

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    1. Beyond reality (or reali-tea), there is reali-eye.

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  2. Estes forté is steel and metal not people

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  3. Steel and metal are more reliable than people

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  4. They are present for a longer time.

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