Don Eddy (1944)
Don Eddy
Don Eddy is a contemporary representational painter. He gained recognition in American art around 1970 amid a group of artists that critics and dealers identified as Photorealists or Hyperrealists, based on their work's high degree of verisimilitude and use of photography as a resource material. Eddy has worked in cycles, which treat various imagery from different formal and conceptual viewpoints, moving from detailed, formal images of automobile sections and storefront window displays in the 1970s to perceptually challenging mash-ups of still lifes and figurative/landscapes scenes in the 1980s to mysterious multi-panel paintings in his latter career. Eddy's work has been informed by wide-ranging, sometimes contradictory influences: old masters (e.g., van Eyck and Vermeer), Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist color, the analytical cubism of Braque and Picasso, Hans Hofmann, Conceptual and Minimalist critiques of Abstract Expressionism, and Pop art.
| Date and place of birt: | 4 november 1944, Long Beach, USA |
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| Nationality: | USA |
| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Landscape painter, Marine painter, Painter, Photographer |
| Genre: | Cityscape, Industrial landscape, Landscape painting, Marine art, Still life |
| Art style: | Realism, Hyperrealism, Photorealism, Contemporary art |
| Technique: | Color pencil, Pencil, Acrylic, Oil |
