Donald Eddy

Miejsce: Long Beach

Urodzony: 1944

Biografia:

Donald Eddy is a contemporary representational painter born in Long Beach, California, United States in 1944. He gained recognition in American art around 1970 amid a group of artists that critics and dealers identified as Photorealists or Hyperrealists, based on their work's high degree of verisimilitude and use of photography as a resource material.

Early Life and Career

Eddy was born in Long Beach, California in 1944. In early adolescence, he worked at his father's auto body shop doing custom paint jobs, an experience that familiarized him with Southern California car culture, the airbrush as a painting tool, and working-class concern for craft—all factors in his later art. He studied art history and fine arts at the University of Hawaiʻi (BFA, 1967; MFA, 1969), also working as a snapshot photographer for a tourist agency. After graduating, Eddy completed PhD coursework in art history at University of California, Santa Barbara while continuing to paint. By 1970, he had shifted from early mixed-media and figurative work and turned to car-culture imagery and the Paasche H airbrush from his youth (which he has used his entire career) in works focused on the nature of space in painting.

Process and Style

Eddy paints using a systematic, painstaking process he developed early in his career, exploiting what he calls his "obsessive-compulsive" temperament. He begins with multiple photographs recording a maximum of detailed visual information. After selecting a "master image", he projects it onto a canvas and maps out his composition. He then lays down three sequences of transparent underpainting in tiny (1/16") layered airbrush circles of different value: the first, in phthalocyanine green, supplies detailed image information and value structure; a burnt sienna layer distinguishes warm from cool regions and amplifies the darks; and a dioxazine purple layer further specifies the warms and cools.

• He has described the result as a kind of illusion—small, abstract circles that resolve into highly detailed images.
• His work is characterized by its meticulous detail, often surpassing the quality of the photographic reference used to create it.
• Eddy's paintings are considered an advancement of photorealism, with a focus on creating a convincing illusion of reality.

aspects of Eddy's work include his use of photography as a resource material and his exploration of the nature of space in painting. His process is systematic and painstaking, reflecting his "obsessive-compulsive" temperament. Eddy has worked in cycles, which treat various imagery from different formal and conceptual viewpoints, moving from detailed, formal images of automobile sections and storefront window displays in the 1970s to perceptually challenging mash-ups of still lifes and figurative/landscapes scenes in the 1980s to mysterious multi-panel paintings in his latter career. He lives in New York City with his wife, painter Leigh Behnke. https://Wikioo.org/@/Donald-Eddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Eddy The https://Wikioo.org page on Donald Eddy provides a comprehensive overview of his work and career, including his early life and education, as well as his process and style. The Wikipedia page on Donald Eddy also offers a detailed biography and discussion of his art. https://Wikioo.org/Art.nsf/O/A@D3CQLX The Hyper Realism Art Movement Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture that resembles high-resolution photography. It emerged as an independent art movement and style in the United States and Europe in the early 1970s, building on the principles of photorealism. https://Wikioo.org/Art.nsf/O/A@D3CR7X The Photorealism Art Movement Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. https://Wikioo.org/@/Donald-Eddy Don Eddy | Don Eddy is a contemporary representational painter born in Long Beach, California, United States in 1944. He gained recognition in American art around 1970 amid a group of artists that critics and dealers identified as Photorealists or Hyperrealists, based on their work's high degree of verisimilitude and use of photography as a resource material. https://Wikioo.org/@@/8XXABL-Edward-Hopper-El-Palacio Painting by Edward Hopper | Edward Hopper: El Palacio (Whitney Museum of American Art (United States), Oil On Canvas,) https://Wikioo.org/@@/8YDQKN-Edward-Hopper-Railroad-Sunset Painting by Edward Hopper | Edward Hopper: Railroad Sunset (Whitney Museum of American Art (United States), Oil On Canvas,) https://Wikioo.org/@@/8YE9WN-Edward-Hopper-A-Woman-in-the-Sun Painting by Edward Hopper | Edward