William Robinson is an Australian painter, born in 1936. His enormous paintings of the Australian landscape often involve multiple perspectives with disorienting and twisting effects. He wants his viewers to feel that they are enclosed within a landscape, having it unfold before them.
“Living in the country everything moves—the seasons, the clouds, nothing is set. There are things behind you, all around you and you are in it. … You begin to realise that you are in a landscape that is really the crust of the earth. It is air and ground. We’re all just spinning through space. There is something about the paintings that is indefinite, not solid. We don’t really have an orientation in this infinity. … You begin to question what time is ….” – William Robinson
The Seattle Artist League is pleased to announce the extended exhibition “Vivid Shifts,” featuring the work of Alan Byars, a longstanding painting student at the League. After completing his painting “Cool Reflections” (below) which immersed him in meticulous hyper-realism through years of sporadic engagement, Alan decided to find the fun again, with a pivot towards …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9204″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Yesterday I posted a fragment of a sculpture and asked you to guess when it was made and who made it. I worded my question to be misleading by asking specifically “who” and “what year.” Some of the guesses I received were: Brancusi, 1952? Isamu Noguchi? Henry Moore late …
With strong artistic similarities to Alice Neel in figurative portraiture, Aliza Nisenbaum’s large scale angled figures lead the eye across the composition, and her sharp colors stay fresh, not overworked. Like Neel, Nisenbaum paints small areas of contrasting colors of yellow and purple, pink and green, next to each other to show the variety …
Sometimes people send me personal emails in response to my V. Notes. Sometimes those emails include interesting artwork that relates to my post. In response to yesterday’s post about the sumi painter Pan Gongkai, I received an email from Jodi Waltier, a League textiles instructor, including artwork for her upcoming show. Hey Ruthie, … am …
William Robinson’s Perspectives
William Robinson is an Australian painter, born in 1936. His enormous paintings of the Australian landscape often involve multiple perspectives with disorienting and twisting effects. He wants his viewers to feel that they are enclosed within a landscape, having it unfold before them.
“Living in the country everything moves—the seasons, the clouds, nothing is set. There are things behind you, all around you and you are in it. … You begin to realise that you are in a landscape that is really the crust of the earth. It is air and ground. We’re all just spinning through space. There is something about the paintings that is indefinite, not solid. We don’t really have an orientation in this infinity. … You begin to question what time is ….” – William Robinson
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