In a message dated 12/14/2004 10:40:32 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A colleague from Sweden was here yesterday, so my wife and I took him to Santa Fe for a few hours. In the early evening we wandered into an art gallery, which included paintings by Victoria Montesinos, a Mexican artist who lives in New York.
She is currently painting large canvasses of flowers. The extraordinary thing about her work is that only parts of the flower are rendered sharply -- a central stamen, for example, along with segments of the flower edge. The remainder of the flower is soft. I recognized immediately that she is imitating selective focus in macro photography. She renders as sharp the center of the flower, along with parts of an edge, as if that is a narrow plane that is in focus. The rest of the flower is rendered as if it was out of focus. The result is quite effective on her large canvasses. You can google her name to see some of her work. Joe ============ Belated -- I read an art book about Georgia O'Keefe that made the argument her big flowers were based on macro photography. Considering who her longtime lover was, very likely. Marnie aka Doe
