The feature spread showcases nine paintings from the two exceptional artists, along with their personal commentary on the methods and key influences behind their quiet subject matter.
“…I want to depict the strangeness I feel in everyday life, the beauty of a moment in the ordinary, and complex situations where sophistication and unrefinedness coexist.”
“I don’t like to paint much from photographs. For one thing I find it astonishingly boring; I feel like a pixel pimp…Everyone thinks I draw with such detail—I don’t—it’s all hieroglyphics. All those carpets are faked, they’re just a bunch of squiggles but the mind receives that weight. I learned this from Vermeer, everything’s out of focus. When you hard-edge everything, the mind accepts it less, the eyes accept it less as realism. That’s why I get a little annoyed at the photorealism tag, because that’s not what I’m doing. It’s realism, but it’s actually the way things look. It takes into account the space and the air, and the texture…there are so many things to draw beside the topical map of a photograph.””
Both artists are the features of the upcoming Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts autumn exhibition, New Mystical Realism: Works by Eric Green & Hisaya Taira.