I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. - Philip Pearlstein
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.
- Philip Pearlstein
The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees... I have wa… - Philip Pearlstein
The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees... I have wa…
There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress. - Philip Pearlstein
There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.
I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of re… - Philip Pearlstein
I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of re…
Each work has to be done as intensely as possible. - Philip Pearlstein
Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.
I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant referenc… - Philip Pearlstein
I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant referenc…
Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small. - Philip Pearlstein
Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.
Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing. - Philip Pearlstein
Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.
I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to sh… - Philip Pearlstein
I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to sh…
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