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Meet the artist, Alex Rosenkreuz, whose recent works are on exhibit in our Nancy Woodward Gallery through August 25th.
Meet Alex Rosenkreuz, the featured artist in the Nancy Woodward Gallery at the York Art Association. His recent works will be on display through August 25th. Alex will give a brief talk on his oil paintings and the artists that influence and inspire him on Saturday, August 18th at 10:30 am.
Alex Rosenkreuz: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
“Like a musician who plays the violin can appreciate the music of a percussionist and a pianist, an artist can love many forms of art – though he can’t do everything.” Alex Rosenkreuz’s paintings are a study and an homage to legendary artists that came before him. On July 22nd, 2018, a collection of his works from recent years will be exhibited at the York Art Association – giving York County an opportunity to share in his passion for artistic giants from Rembrandt to Singer Sargent.
Sixteenth Century painters, Rembrandt and Vermeer inspire Rosenkreuz’s classical still lifes, through their dramatic play of lights and darks. He is roused by Rembrandt’s magical transformation of a face in the dark to a lantern glowing from within. Vermeer’s vision of a single point of light that illuminates but one flower in a vase stirs his imagination.
From the Wonderers – a group of realist artists who later evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870, Rosenkreuz is inspired by Shishkin, Levitan, Repin and Polenov. These masters of landscape concentrated on aerial effects between sky and clouds, sunset and water, forests and hills. Their work energizes Rosenkreuz as he paints the Susquehanna River and surrounding areas.
The influence of neoclassical portrait and figure painters: Bouguereau, Zorn, and Singer Sargent, is evident in Rosenkreuz’s own paintings. From Bouguereau, he studies the subtle varieties of flesh tones. He strives for Zorn’s brilliant positioning of the human form in nature and Singer Sargent’s brave brush strokes.
To study master painters is both a challenge and an honor; and, a bit like standing on the shoulders of giants. It is a passion that Rosenkreuz translates into color and contrast, brushstroke by brushstroke – careful not to get lost in the details.
This article used with permission from it’s author, Jessica Lee.
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