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Ben Schonzeit "Two Protea" Large Acrylic on Canvas, 1989 'Signed'

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Large original acrylic on canvas "Two Protea" by Ben Schonzeit, American 1989, signed and dated on reverse with gallery label that reads: (Ben Schonzeit “Two Protea, Acrylic on canvas excecuted in 1989). The photorealistic flowers are emblematic of Schonzeit’s work. The dark figures are from his Comedia series done in the late-1980’s. Ben Schonzeit is internationally recognized as a pioneer of the Photorealist Movement (1970's) along with artists such as Richard Estes, Chuck Close, Robert Bechtle and Malcolm Morley. However, Schonzeit sets himself apart from this movement by choice and depiction of subject matter. Schonzeit’s canvases were filled with highly magnified fruits, vegetables and flowers sometimes reproduced in a deliberately skewed, out of focus manner. Schonzeit's aesthetic is clearly informed by the concurrent movements of Pop, that of color field painting, whose concerns were more formal. Schonzeit uses familiar objects as a vehicle to explore issues of color, form, content, and abstraction. He is a prolific artist who embraces imagination as opposed to observation; the invented rather than the depicted. Schonzeit is concerned with narrative color, abstraction, intellectual experience, drama and beauty. His work speaks of sensation, nostalgia, memory, relationships and associations unique to each viewer and each viewing. Schonzeit was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1942. He is a graduate of The Cooper Union. He has exhibited widely both here and abroad since 1969. Schonzeit is a leading representative of the so-called Photo-Realists, who use photographs rather than reality as a basis for their paintings. Schonzeit has also created works on paper from life and his imagination using a variety of mediums such as pen & ink, brush, and watercolor. His paintings, drawings, and photographs are included in the collections of many important museums around the world including The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, The Basel Kunstmuseum, The Denver Art Museum, and The Brooklyn Museum.

Creator:

Ben Schonzeit (Artist)

Dimensions:

Height: 51.5 in (130.81 cm)Width: 67.5 in (171.45 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Acrylic,Canvas,Wood

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

1980-1989