Reviews for Visualizing Spanish Modernity

The average rating for Visualizing Spanish Modernity based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-11-29 00:00:00 Richard Rosen 290117: fascinating close inspection of 'hyper-realism' painting, sort of well known from the 1960 on in America, that can be seen as a response to non-figurative abstract expressionist, and pop-art. Estes is careful drafting, realistic, mostly urban, environments. this is a catalog of a show mounted in Italy, Spain, US, so accompanying essays are translated. colour reproductions are great. apparently he moved to use many photographs of sites, drew images, inspired by commercial art he had done, by lack of models, and the images of crowded New York are almost all empty of 'anecdotal' figures, though he found purely abstract work boring, pop-art 'silly'. his work is not simply representation: one point noted is that the human eye, the photograph lense, focuses either on the glass or surface, or subject seen through or reflected on- not both at the same time, which he does in layers, so you see both. some great images. essentially 'landscapes' with urban sites, made abstract, precise, luminous, in shop glass, in mirrors, in all reflected surfaces... why i like both this and say Ad Reinhardt is not clear. simply enjoy...

Review # 2 was written on 2009-08-06 00:00:00 Brandon Betts Nice art book. Good selection of B&W fantasy pictures. recommended