Jeff Wall

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Jeff Wall is a Canadian artist most renowned for his cibachrome back-lit photographs. He was one of the early influences on the Vancouver School of photography, and his work often features the blend of urban decay and natural beauty that often appear side-by-side in Vancouver, placed against an industrially blank backdrop.

« The relationship of photography to cinema and painting has always been the important thing for me. »
Jeff Wall

Basin In Rome 2

Photography - Mixed Media

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He did some experimentation with conceptual art while in college but did not start producing works until he was 31, when his first photo-transparencies came out. His initial works referred to philosophical issues at work in representation and art history. One of Jeff Wall's more well known works isMimic (1982), which features an Asian man and a white couple walking toward the camera in a color transparency.

« I find my observations interesting. Maybe that is why I am a photographer. Maybe an observation is an experience that means more to you than other experiences. »
Jeff Wall

The white man is mocking the Asian man by pulling his eye down into a slanted shape, in a recreation of a social exchange that Wall actually witnessed. The recreation is designed to capture Read More

Canada / male artist / Contemporary Art

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Jeff Wall

Basin In Rome 2, 2003

Photography

Mixed Media

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What is contemporary art?

Contemporary art describes avant-garde or innovative art created in the recent past or the present day. The date describing the beginning of contemporary art varies by the institutions which exhibit the style. The museums often date the era based on their founding year.

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