LEARNING from EXHIBITIONS after HISTORY The Paintings of David Bierk.

From: Arts & Activities | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

David Bierk, an artist who has reconsidered traditions and ideas of the past to create an art for the new millennium, focuses on three distinct subject areas in his paintings: landscapes, still lifes and what the artist calls "history paintings."

Bierk abstracts and adapts these subjects to create personal tributes to the works of such renowned masters as Caravaggio, Vermeer, Ingres, Fantin-Latour, Manet, Bierstadt and Hopper, among others. While basing his compositions on art masterpieces from the past, he places these new images in a contemporary context with a boldness and ...

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