Don Eddy's New Shoes for H.Have you ever looked into a mirror or the water in a lake? What did you see? Have you ever looked at the shiny surface of a new car? What did you see? Were the things you saw real? Are parts of the things you saw real? Are none of the things you saw real? Is art real? Some surfaces are opaque; some are transparent. Sometimes the real and the unreal are mixed. The thing that causes this visual confusion is reflection. In a reflection, the things you see are real, but they are not where you are looking. Everything is reversed in a reflection. Don Eddy Don Eddy is a photorealist artist. He was born on November 4,1944 in Long Beach, California. Eddy is known primarily as a painter whose earlier works of the 70's paid homage to car and the urban cityscape. is an artist from California who grew up doing airbrush airbrush Pneumatic device for developing a fine, small-diameter spray of paint, protective coating, or liquid colour (see aerosol). The airbrush can be a pencil-shaped atomizer used for various highly detailed activities such as shading drawings and retouching paintings on surfboards and cars. He is also a photographer. In New Shoes for H., Don used some photographs he had taken in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . He was fascinated by the multiple images he saw on the shiny surfaces of the store windows. These images were all seen through several pieces of glass at different angles. It is a mixture of reflection and distortion. The result is a shimmering shim·mer intr.v. shim·mered, shim·mer·ing, shim·mers 1. To shine with a subdued flickering light. See Synonyms at flash. 2. surface of colors not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color and shapes. Don Eddy is doing a new kind of art. He admired the works of earlier artists such as Henri Matisse Noun 1. Henri Matisse - French painter and sculptor; leading figure of fauvism (1869-1954) Henri Emile Benoit Matisse, Matisse and Hans Hofmann For other uses, see Hans Hofmann (Swiss politician). Hans Hofmann (March 21 1880 – February 17 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21 1880 the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. . The "H" in the painting's title refers to these two artists-new shoes (new art) for these great artists of the past. The new kind of art which uses photographs to make realistic images of our world is called Photo-Realism. A COLLAGE TO TRY 1 Look around your home and town for things that reflect images and color. Look at the reflections from different directions. 2 Observe the colors of the reflections and the colors of the real objects. Observe how things in the reflections are reversed. 3 Make a tissue-paper collage of the many reflections. Overlap objects to create a filled-surface effect. Adhere light colors of tissue over dark colors so shapes can be seen through them. 4 Tell your friends about your collage. Where did you find your ideas? What is the surface on which the reflections were seen? WORDS TO DISCUSS reflection surfaces opaque transparent Photo-Realism |
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