'Alameda Gran Torino' (1974) and other cars by American painter Robert Bechtle (b. 1932)—a few more here instagram.com/p/CBXsENpjhDk/
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Photorealism has never attracted me much in the past, but then I realized that, in some cases, such as that of Bechtle, it is not a matter of virtuosity, not an empty ostentation of skill, but rather a matter of vision, a self-forgetting attraction, an ethics of the gaze...
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As Bechtle says in a documentary: 'each little path to the painting is like a little abstract painting that you're trying to figure out'
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Asphalt and shadows
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'Ingleside Street' (1986) by Robert Bechtle
[an inception... almost]
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Self-portrait with car
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Feel the sun, smell the street...
Here are a few colour soft ground etchings with aquatint by Robert Bechtle (published by Crown Point Press and printed by Ianne Kjorlie)
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Amazing, so many artists avoid drawing vehicles because of their complex shapes. They could almost drive out of the painting.
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So often, “car art” depicts the visually heroic. Nice to see the humdrum get an airing. Would love to see a Cutlass Supreme in here.
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Alameda Gran Torino' (1974)
Could be a photograph from one of my childhood photo albums, we had that exact one.
Really fantastic work.
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