Vija Celmins

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Vija Celmins is a Latvia-born artist who works in several mediums, including printmaking, charcoal, and oil painting. Early in her career, Celmins created several pop sculptures and representational paintings. Much of her work reflects the photo-realistic, abstract, and minimalist styles, and nature and natural phenomena are themes depicted in many of her pieces.

« Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. »
Vija Celmins

Spider-web

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She is well-known for focusing on organic details and embracing natural imperfection. Celmins earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from the John Herron Institute, and she received her masters of fine arts from the University of California, Los Angeles.

« Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can not see it. It can build up a dense feeling toward the end, and then it makes me happier. »
Vija Celmins

She has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur fellowship and a 1996 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. The work of Vija Celmins is currently on display in numerous fine arts museums across the United States and Europe, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.

Latvia / female artist / Photorealism / Abstract art / Process Art / Minimalism / Hyper-realism / New Figuration / Contemporary Art / Found Object

ARTWORKS BY Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins

Night Sky 1 ( Reversed ), 2002

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Mixed Media

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Vija Celmins

Spider-web, 2009

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Genre of art or artistic movement that encompasses, drawing, painting and some other graphic media where an artist carefully studies and understands an image in photograph then attempts to reproduce it in another medium realistically as much as possible. Though the term can be used to describe artwork broadly, it can also be used to refer to a specific group of painters and paintings in the U.S. art movement that came to being in late 1960 and early 1970.

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