Drinking Like a Fish: Photo Surrealism, the Art of Patrick Livingstone - Softcover

Livingstone, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3737542414 ISBN 13: 9783737542418

Verlag: epubli GmbH, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The photographic surrealism of Patrick Livingstone, internationally renowned for his oil painting, is presented here for the first time. Inspired since childhood by Dali and Magritte, his photo-surrealist paintings are amazingly detailed, and often humorous. Surreal humour awaits the reader inside, illustrating the artists wry Irish wit, a delight to behold. The images themselves often seem simply a little strange, until you read the title, and then the humour appears from behind the surreal mask. A typical example is "Heavy Metal", where the red peppers are perfectly in balance with the brass weights on the opposite side of the scales. They are being painted by a wooden hand, normally used as a model by the artist, with Cadmium Red paint. Cadmium, as I'm sure you know, belongs to the group of "heavy metals", so we wait to see if the painter will "tip the scales" with his painting. In another painting we see sea shells and waves, both of which can be said to illustrate the ratio of numbers first discovered be the Italian mathematician, Leonardo Bonacci (c. 1170 – c. 1250)―known as Fibonacci. The shells are further arranged in a "Fibonacci Spiral", while hovering over a sea of "Fibonacci waves". Many a speculator has lost his shirt trading in stocks and shares, guided in vain by Fibonacci waves. This book would make a great gift for any art lover with a sense of the bizarre. This book contains around thirty unique paintings, representing the artist's most recent work.

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I was born in Lurgan, Ireland in 1956. I began my painting career at the tender age of four, and was enormously encouraged by the reaction of my mother, to my somewhat immature efforts. This led to me practicing my watercolour technique to a degree not usually seen in one so young, with the aim of astonishing my parents still further. I sold my first painting at the age of twelve, and immediately spent the money on a set of oil paints. My art teacher instilled a solid sense of composition and design, but it was the renowned landscape artist Cecil Maguire, a friend of my father since childhood, who guided me through my early years as an oil painter, instilling a love of classical technique. Early influences were Salvador Dali and Monet.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: epubli GmbH
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3737542414
• ISBN 13: 9783737542418
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 68
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Neopubli GmbH; kontakt@epubli.de; www.epubli.de; ; Köpenicker Str. 154a; Berlin; 10997; Deutschland