Video: Big City Painting by Christopher St. Leger
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Who said that watercolor drawings are not serious? Who said that it is frivolous to portray the life of a modern big city? American artist Christopher St. Leger completely refutes these stupid prejudices with his work!
The artist Christopher St. Leger's object of creative interest is ordinary life in ordinary American cities. In his watercolors, viewers can easily recognize New York, Washington, Dallas (he himself lives in Texas) and other cities. Although, in principle, geographic referencing does not have any special meaning in them.
Christopher St. Leger celebrates the everyday life of American cities. Moreover, both their noisy central parts filled with traffic jams and smog, and quiet, calm suburbs, where the main event of the month can be a tree wrapped in toilet paper in front of the house of an unloved teacher.
Moreover, Saint-Leger paints all his paintings with watercolors, which usually causes ridicule among "serious" artists. But this is exactly how he gets, truly, living, real pictures, reflecting the everyday life of American megacities.
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