Not exact matches
Her paintings are influenced by
European and American art
traditions and tensions, and she reconciles them with her own
pictorial voice, albeit one that gives a shout out to artists including Henri Matisse, David Hockney, Albert Oehlen, and Dana Schutz, to name a few.
He embraced the
European tradition of
pictorial illusionism while employing decidedly low or «pop» imagery.
Well educated in the
pictorial tradition of art history, Sprick's influences reach back to Northern
European masters such as Robert Campin and Rogier van de Weyden, admiring their ability to render a convincing look at invisible realms and otherworldly occurrences.
Thus was «Pittura Analitica» born 1974, identifying an exclusive number of
European painters who worked on a limited number of themes: the creative process, the operative method, the choice of materials, the role of the spectator, the absence of autobiography, the lack of references to any
pictorial tradition, the importance of seriality.