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MarkTansey.com is a tribute to Mark Tansey (b. 1949), an American Painter whose paintings are at once realistic, densely textured, perplexing, and filled with allusions to art and literature.
This site features an art gallery, a bookstore,
a film library, several links
of interest and a shop.
Each painting is carefully calculated both in terms of technique and meaning. The single hue in which his paintings are rendered acts as a constant reminder of the essential falsehood of all painting, and as a means to focus on the ideas presented. Tansey achieves the precise photographic-like quality of his canvases by a complicated set of maneuvers involving the application of gesso and either washing, brushing and/or scraping the monochromatic paint into it. The specificity of his technique extends to the ideas probed. Tansey's subjects are fantastic, sometimes surreal scenes in which intellectual theories about art are dramatized, often complete with portraits of "characters" drawn from art history. [Read
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Forward Retreat
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The Bricoleur's Daughter
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Picasso and Braque
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