By Betsy Weis
Located in Hudson, NY
Betsy Weis (Photography)
Summer Lilies, 2006
20" X 30"
$1,700.00
archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
(Also available with 27 x 37 inches in white frame with white mat & AR non-glare glass, $2,000)
Image: 20 x 30 inches
Paper: 24 x 36 inches
Photographed in Wellfleet in Cape Cod, this black and white archival pigment print by Betsy Weis captures a cluster of water lilies afloat on a glassy, onyx-like body of water. Crisp, moody, and rich in texture, the photograph can stand on its own as a quiet glimpse at nature, or can be juxtaposed with others in the series to form a more complete vision.
This photograph is available unframed. The image measures 20 x 30 inches, and the paper measures 24 x 26 inches.
Artist statement:
Nature provides the perfect model of beauty, according to Plato and Socrates. In the classical period, something was considered beautiful because it existed in nature; art was secondary. In the 18th Century, the German philosopher Johann Joachim Winckelmann argued against the idea that art imitates life, believing that qualities superior to nature are found in art, specifically, ideal beauty, and “brain-born images”. Neoclassical thought represented that art need not serve any end other than its own existence. For me, beauty is an ideal, nature is real, and art comes from the brain.
I take pictures in nature, finding shifting, disparate, and beautiful landscapes. I develop my pictures of trees...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Bromoil
MaterialsArchival Pigment
