| Rainer Fetting: Los Angeles Surfscapes Contributor(s): Fetting, Rainer, Pfefferle, Karl (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3936646996 ISBN-13: 9783936646993 Publisher: Kerber Verlag OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | American - General - Art | Individual Artists - General |
| Dewey: 709.2 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 8.82" W x 6.4" (0.85 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Surfers, and not the Internet kind, compose the majority of Rainer Fetting's latest group of paintings, set amid the sunny environs of Venice Beach, California (in contrast to his more typical urban subjects). Surfing as a subject of art has made a comeback worthy of Brian Wilson's Smile, as seen in Catherine Opie's photographs and Robert Longo's recent paintings, among others. Fetting's thick paint applied in simple adjacent lines flirts with abstraction but also conveys the power of waves, with matchstick-bodied surfers at nature's mercy. At other times, single firgures balancing on boards playfully allude to Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" and Dufy-esque views from a beachside hotel capture California colors in a testament to the painter's versatility. And what's more Californian than a sunset--over a car? |
