Nick Garrett

Category: Nick Garrett: New Paintings

New artwork produced and probably still wet.

Videos and shots of recent work.

  • What is Modern Portrait Painting – MOMA Learning

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    What Is Modern Art?

    http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/what-is-modern-art/modern-portraits

    Late-19th-century artists broke with tradition to create art for the modern age.

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    Modern Portraits

    Painting Modern Life

    Explore how early modern artists forged new directions in painting.

    Rise of the Modern City

    Discover the ways in which artists, photographers, and architects changed the landscape of modern cities.

    Modern Landscapes

    Discover groundbreaking techniques in early modern landscape paintings.

    Modern Portraits

    Explore how early modern painters pushed the boundaries of traditional portraiture.

    Popular Culture

    Learn about the influence of early forms of posters and advertising on art.

    Portraits can represent individuals in many different ways. They can be literalrepresentations of a person or they can represent a person symbolically. By the turn of the 20th century, photographs had become the most accessible and popular mode of portraiture. As though freed from the burden of realism, portrait painters of the time began to explore new ways to represent people, breaking with the literal and representational portrait of the previous era.

  • About

    The Portrait

    ”Portraits are often beautiful yet always mysterious things.  No matter who creates them they have a life of their own.  Through our portraits we kind of ‘live’ forever….

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    My own work is founded on a simple principle  – a search for truth.
    Aged just 2yrs I was painting people and animals in a clear graphic way.
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    Some of my earliest works, centered around the idea that detail plays an essential part of clarifying identity.  
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