拉克斯特劳-唐斯 画家

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Rackstraw Downes
Painter | Class of 2009
Rendering minutely detailed landscapes of unexpected vistas that reconsider the intersection between the built and the natural world.

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Title
Painter
Location
New York, New York
Age
69 at time of award
Area of Focus
2-D Visual Art
Published January 26, 2009
ABOUT RACKSTAW'S WORK
Rackstraw Downes is a painter whose minutely detailed, oil-on-canvas landscapes invite viewers to reconsider the intersection between the natural world and man-made objects. Turning from abstract painting in the early 1960s, Downes has pursued a unique approach to realism that defies standard categorization. He begins each work with drawings and oil sketches before it is meticulously painted on site; in order to capture the precise details of lighting and weather, he can spend many months completing a single piece. Rejecting picturesque views characteristic of much realist work, his landscapes depict scenes generally overlooked or dismissed for lack of a traditional aesthetic appeal. His subjects range from the roadways, urban detritus, and industrial backyards of the East Coast to the oil fields and vast, empty terrain of Texas. In painting the American landscape as it is, not as it has been idealized, Downes imbues seemingly ordinary subjects with extraordinary power. His artistry is deeply rooted in the history and thought of painting, and he has written highly regarded essays on visual and literary artists as varied as John Constable, Fairfield Porter, and Samuel Beckett. Considered one of the most distinctive representational painters of his generation, Downes is challenging familiar conceptions of realist painting in works of formal rigor and quiet, yet stunning, beauty.

BIOGRAPHY
Rackstraw Downes received a B.A. (1961) from the University of Cambridge and a B.F.A. (1963) and M.F.A. (1964) from Yale University. His work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the National Gallery of Art, among many others. His essays have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Art in America, and Art Journal.



拉克斯特劳-唐斯
画家 | 2009级
描绘细致入微的风景，重新考虑建筑与自然界之间的交集，展现出意想不到的美景。

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标题
画家
地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时为69岁
重点领域
二维视觉艺术
发表于2009年1月26日
关于Rackstaw的作品
Rackstraw Downes是一位画家，他细致入微的油画风景画邀请观众重新考虑自然世界和人造物体之间的交集。在20世纪60年代初，唐斯从抽象绘画转向，追求一种独特的现实主义方法，拒绝标准分类。他在每件作品开始时都画了素描和油画草图，然后才在现场精心绘制；为了捕捉照明和天气的精确细节，他可能要花好几个月的时间来完成一件作品。他的风景画摒弃了许多现实主义作品所特有的风景，描绘了一般被忽视或因缺乏传统美学吸引力而被否定的场景。他的主题包括从东海岸的公路、城市垃圾和工业后院到德克萨斯州的油田和广阔空旷的地形。在画美国的真实风景，而不是被理想化的风景时，唐斯将看似普通的主题赋予了非凡的力量。他的艺术创作深深地扎根于绘画的历史和思想中，他写下了关于视觉和文学艺术家的高度评价的文章，如约翰-康斯特布尔、费尔菲尔德-波特和塞缪尔-贝克特等人。唐斯被认为是他这一代人中最独特的表现主义画家之一，他正在挑战人们熟悉的现实主义绘画的概念，其作品形式严谨，安静而又令人惊叹。

个人简历
Rackstraw Downes在剑桥大学获得学士学位（1961年），在耶鲁大学获得学士学位（1963年）和硕士学位（1964年）。他的作品被芝加哥艺术学院、现代艺术博物馆、休斯顿美术博物馆和国家艺术馆等机构永久收藏。他的文章曾出现在《纽约时报》、《美国艺术》和《艺术杂志》等出版物上。