Vija Celmins (b. October 25, 1938, Riga, Latvia) is an American artist.
Vija Celmins immigrated to the United States with her family from Latvia when she was ten years old. She and her family settled in Indiana. Celmins received international attention early in her career for her renditions of natural scenes, often painted from photographs lacking a point of reference, horizon, or discernible depth of field.
Celmins work includes oil painting, ch...
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Vija Celmins (b. October 25, 1938, Riga, Latvia) is an American artist.
Vija Celmins immigrated to the United States with her family from Latvia when she was ten years old. She and her family settled in Indiana. Celmins received international attention early in her career for her renditions of natural scenes, often painted from photographs lacking a point of reference, horizon, or discernible depth of field.
Celmins work includes oil painting, charcoal and pencil drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Her early work bears interesting relationships with that of her contemporary, Gerhard Richter, the German painter. The early paintings share Richter's slightly blurred photo-realist style, and some were executed with no colour, just using black and white and greys made from mixing black and white paint.
Celmins' early work includes paintings of such commonplace objects as TVs, lamps, and black and white photographs. These works also share with Richter's an apparent randomness and thus...
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