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Betsy Weis
Trees and Moonlit Sky (Archival Inkjet Print on Watercolor Paper)

2018

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£912.33
€1,052.86
CA$1,679.68
A$1,880.79
CHF 981.30
MX$22,916.06
NOK 12,452.03
SEK 11,838.57
DKK 7,858.94
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archival inkjet print on watercolor paper 16 x 16 inches unframed 2018 Photographed in Maine, this color archival pigment print by Betsy Weis captures a grouping of trees at dusk. The serenity of the moon's gentle light against a deep blue evening sky illuminates the dark forest below. This photograph is available unframed. The image measures 16 x 16 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, dirt, grass, snow, rain, sun, and sky, using a subtle palette of grays and blacks. Notably, there are no traces of people or any other living creatures, and I do not use vivid color. I consider history, geography, ambiguity, and other less tangible features of a psychological and emotional nature essential elements in these pictures. The beauty inherent in nature is sometimes obvious and superficial, and often taken for granted. I want to keep the viewer engaged past the surface, beyond what is simply beautiful, and impart a deeper experience of nature in the 21st Century.
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    2018
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    Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Hudson, NY
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    1stDibs: LU2273171581

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