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Stephanie Aitken: Headlands: New Paintings Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver.

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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It seems the task of much image-based painting today is to translate what the camera sees into the sticky material of paint. How many prominent contemporary painters paint directly from life as opposed to the far more popular strategy of painting from photographic images? The reason for this...

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...may not simply be that photos are a more convenient source or that we live in a photo; saturated world and photo-based images seem more contemporary and relevant. It may be that the distance created through mediation is an alluring subject itself. Perhaps no painter exemplifies the gravitational...

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