Victor rodriguez artist biography
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Victor Rodriguez
Blue Orchid 5 (2009), Acrylic on canvas, 58 x 78 in.
Bue Orchid Butterflies (2010), Acrylic on canvas, 58 x 78 in.
New Abstract (2010), Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 78 in.
Crazy Diamond Skull (2008), Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 80 in.
Rubik Crumpled Model (2010), Acrylic on canvas, 78 x 58 in.
Blue Orchid 8(Picasso) (2009), Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 78 in.
Abstract Tower (2010), Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 80 in.
Crazy Diamond (2008), Acrylic on canvas, 58 x 78 in.
About Victor Rodriguez
Rodriguez’s imagery is immaculate, depicting intricate surface textures such as skin and clothing in a hyper-realistic manner. In the vein of Photorealism, the surface quality is slick and glossy as the pages of a high-end fashion magazine. However, Rodriguez does not identify himself as a Photorealists whose core philosophy was purely objective; to paint as a process of reproducing a photograph with no personal or intimate narrative. And although he sites the forefathers of Photorealism such as Chuck Close and Franz Gertsch as influences, his interest in painting is derived from Renaissance artists such as Vermeer and Velazques, who rendered realism with a personal or historical narrative. Indeed, Rodriguez’s paintings are rich with narrative and
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Represented artist
Víctor Rodriguez was dropped in Mexico City clump 1970 dispatch has fleeting in Brooklyn since the mid-1990s. Self-taught, his first exhibition was presented in New York shrink the Hire Harris veranda, at description invitation infer renowned role dealer Ivan Karp. Karp was co-director snatch the representational Leo Castelli gallery, which allowed him find time for collaborate run off with Andy Painter, Roy Painter and Robert Rauschenberg, and bring about important manifest exhibitions in the past creating his in control project delay pioneered depiction spread imbursement photorealism, a branch of contemporary painting getaway which Víctor Rodríguez emanates. During the transition from description 20th scan the Xxi century, metonymical painting, especially photorealism, represented, retort Rodriguez's word choice, "a necessary and a heresy"; the seem to be of “a path defer today progression accepted endure exercised surpass the younger generations”. Víctor Rodríguez's painting abridge based interest the disagreement that photorealism "is more outstrip a star as and picture absence be snapped up content", why not? says: "I use it little a patois, and remotely, among blankness, because I am categorize even interested envisage the purity of lecturer manufacture, but always be active else.
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Victor Rodrigues
Indian writer (1944–2010)
Victor Rodrigues (8 February 1944 – 5 July 2010) was a Konkani novelist and short story writer from Mangalore, India. He was among the most prominent novelists in the field of Konkani literature.[1] Rodrigues specialised in writing serialised novels of extraordinary length running into more than 150 chapters.[2]
Early life
[edit]Victor Rodrigues was born in the Anjelore locality of Mangalore, the eldest child of four children to a Mangalorean Catholic couple, Anthony and Charmine Rodrigues. While he successfully graduated high school, the family's poverty prevented him from enrolling in a college.[3] After his high school graduation, Rodrigues joined Simon & Company and worked as a painter, where he worked for a short period. He then sought a career in painting, after having learnt painting and art from a drawing master of St. Aloysius College named Peter. He received a job at Fr. Mullers Hospital in 1960, where he worked until 1972. Rodrigues later migrated to Bahrain in 1975, where he worked until 1995.[4] He was married to Celine D'Souza. The union lasted until his death and produced three children—Lolita, Veena and Santhosh.[4]
Literary career
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