Video: The most beautiful aquariums: underwater photography by Kim Keever
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Someone will say that the most beautiful aquarium - the one with the most beautiful fish. But no! The aquarium itself can be a real work of art. If, of course, it was invented by the English artist Kim Keever - the author of amazing panoramic aquariumsthat even the Golden Fish would want to live in.
Kim Keever is not a decorator or designer, but a real American artist, author of dozens of paintings, a major specialist in the genre of landscape miniatures. Art critics note that his style goes back to the glorious traditions of American painting of the 19th century - the so-called Hudson School of Landscape. Nevertheless, at one time, Kiver, impressed by the work of the famous photo artist Cindy Sherman, turned to photography.
Once the artist had a happy idea to transfer his landscapes behind the glass of an 800-liter water tank - and this is how his underwater dioramas appeared, which deserve the title the most beautiful aquariums in the world.
Kim Keever first builds the composition in a dry aquarium, simultaneously thinking over the location of the light sources: much more depends on them under water than in the air. Without multi-colored lights and pigments, the artist would not have been able to achieve such a bulge and expressiveness of three-dimensional paintings. That is why his works are an amazing hybrid of painting and photography: while the paints slowly flow in the water, the artist must have time to photograph them, otherwise the clouds will silently sink to the bottom of the aquarium.
How do fish relate to beautiful lights and pigments? They are on temporary leave and do not yet know what Kim Keever's talent has done to their apartment. I wonder if they will be satisfied with the new interior: all these mountains, grottoes, trees and waterfalls? Most likely, the fish will remain silent.
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