Nora See Art
American
Nora See grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans. See works and lives in New Orleans.
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Artist: Nora See
Princess
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
NORA SEE grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans. She works and lives in New Orleans.
In her oil paintings, Nora See renders framed paintings on walls with which human figures interact. Through her classical painting style and the use of historical visual references, her pieces contrast the past with the present. By combining these temporal elements with the use of frames as containers, she explores themes of consumption, imprisonment, and liberation.
Nora’s work has been exhibited in a variety of venues and is also in the personal collection of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
The artist says of her work...
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography.
I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Madame Why
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography.
I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Fantasme (after Kees van Dongen)
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
Nora See is a New Orleans artist. She earned a BFA at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., a JD at Tulane Law School in New Orleans and an MFA at the Universi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Zontanarhia
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Inundation
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reimago
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography.
I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects hanging on walls, I augment art as a commodity and reconcile the conflict between the artificially assigned monetary value of artworks with the reality that they are simply swirls of paint. In this way, I am also acknowledging the literality of my own work.
I have also altered each copied painting to personalize the context of the pieces and address specific autobiographical ideas. These ideas relate to a range of both recent and distant experiences, both funny and sad.
Although my initial renderings are digital image composites, my medium of choice is oil paint, applied in transparent layers, using the image on the computer screen as a reference. In addition to its lush visual properties, I enjoy the flexibility of oil paint in making acute renderings as well as the evolution of the imagery from paint to digital and back to paint in further protracting both the distillation and evolution of form.
statement on piece
"The character Jame Gumb, from the 1991 film and 1988 book, The Silence of the Lambs...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Parents Devouring Their Children
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this painting of a cameo statue of a Muslim woman, her hijab serves as the frame. The "Framed" title references the persecution of Muslims by the curr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
First Kiss (after Gustav Klimt)
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil and metal leaf on panel
Nora See is a New Orleans artist. She earned a BFA at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., a JD at Tulane Law School in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Metal
Reality Show
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is a reflection of the current US Executive Branch, depicting the US flag as an old TV test pattern, historically used to indicate that no pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Madonna (after Edvard Munch)
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
This painting is a portrait of Madonna the pop star to modernize and empower Munch's Madonna by opening her eyes to confront the viewer.
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Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cameo #2
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
Nora See grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Des...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Eclipse
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
NORA SEE grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Des...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alabama Goddamn
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
NORA SEE grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans. She works and lives in New Orleans.
In her oil paintings, Nora See renders framed paintings on walls with which human figures interact. Through her classical painting style and the use of historical visual references, her pieces contrast the past with the present. By combining these temporal elements with the use of frames as containers, she explores themes of consumption, imprisonment, and liberation.
Nora’s work has been exhibited in a variety of venues and is also in the personal collection of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
STATEMENT
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography.
I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Panel
Get Out
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
NORA SEE grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans. She works and lives in New Orleans.
In her oil paintings, Nora See renders framed paintings on walls with which human figures interact. Through her classical painting style and the use of historical visual references, her pieces contrast the past with the present. By combining these temporal elements with the use of frames as containers, she explores themes of consumption, imprisonment, and liberation.
Nora’s work has been exhibited in a variety of venues and is also in the personal collection of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
The artist says of her work...
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography.
I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Lucky Duck
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
Nora See grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Des...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Salute
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Salute" is a salute to the Black Power Salute used as a political demonstration by African-American athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith during their med...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Apoperiation
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography.
I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Countermonument
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography.
I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Oil
Harder
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alive
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
Nora See is a New Orleans artist. She earned a BFA at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., a JD at Tulane Law School in New Orleans and an MFA at the Universi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nora See Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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