Video: Man and phone. Oil paintings similar to photographs by artist Dan Witz
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is believed that man's best friend is a dog. However, the American realist painter Dan Witz sure that man's best friend is still his mobile phone … Wherever we go, no matter what we do, with whom and whenever we communicate, the mobile phone is always with us - at hand, or even in hand. And Dan Witz is a realist not only because he realizes that we have become addicted to certain gadgets - he also paints realistic pictures on hot topics. Including on the topic friendship of man and cell phone … The attentive reader is probably already familiar with the work of this artist thanks to publications on Culturology. Rudedicated to art stickers "Trapped People" or other realistic paintings by Mosh Pits, in which Dan Witz compares people to pit bulls, and the behavior of an aggressive crowd - to the behavior of a pack of angry dogs. The paintings "Man and the Telephone" are not so socially aggressive, but still somewhere inside you can see a translucent silhouette of loneliness - a theme that the artist plays from time to time in his work.
Some connoisseurs of realistic painting call Dan Witz a "living printer", paying a kind of compliment to his creative abilities, and in particular to how realistic his paintings are, as if it were really not painting, but photographic art. Although the artist himself grew up on the works of street art masters, he began his own creativity with drawings on canvas called the city. Dan Witz still does not shy away from street art, however, the artist's main hobby is realistic painting.
Dan Witz was born and raised in Chicago, where he received an art education, and then, like many talented people, moved to New York. It was there that he was fascinated by the guys who "bombed" the city with street art, and Dan Witz also joined this culture, but then found himself in a completely different genre. You can get acquainted with the artist's works on his website.
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