![]() InĪ Satanist on a Tuesday (or, The Key Master) The paint in the outer margins becomes looser with smears and drips to form rocks, cliffs, trees, and sky. (2011-12), birch logs and a rickety bridge frame an ambiguous interchange between a clearly defined, pale boy and a shadowy, blurred figure. Huysmans in small-scale, sexually fraught narratives in his later works, the landscape assumes a larger, more spiritual role and themes have become more universal.ĭont Tell it on the Mountain, 2013 is available on Artspace for $450 Bas, who is openly gay, is known for featuring young male waifs and dandies drawn from literary works by Oscar Wilde and J.K. ![]() ![]() Growing up in Miami, Bas was exposed to local folklore about UFO, werewolf, and Bigfoot sightings in the Florida wetlands, which inspired his interest in the occult. Hernan Bas's mixed-media works combine silkscreen, block printing, and paint to make landscape a realm for the supernatural and sinister. Acrylic, block print, andscreen print on linen, 72 x 120 inches (182.9 x 304.8 cm). Van Scoy), we take a look at eight contemporary artists pushing the medium forward.īorn 1978, Miami, FL, USA. , a new book edited by Todd Bradway, written byĮxcerpted from the book (and written by Robert R. Maybe the genre is more vital now than it every has been-or that's what is seems like between the covers of Deeply entrenched in a long and storied history, contemporary landscape artists also contend with the future-a future saddled with global warming and environmental catastrophe, as well as our increasingly virtual spaces. But landscape painting's seemingly tired reputation makes it a fertile genre for innovation. "Landscape painting" may call to mind the work of Sunday painters, distant relatives, and stale hotels-nothing the least bit contemporary.
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