About the Artist
Richard Estes
American artist Richard Estes (b.1932) is best known for his photorealist paintings. His works are generally reflective, clean, geometric and inanimate daytime city landscapes. Estes is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters as Chuck Close. A hyper-realist, Estes follows the rules of photography: when his paintings included stickers, signs, and window displays, they were always depicted backwards, because of the way reflection works.
A major proponent of the Photorealist movement, this piece perfectly exemplifies Estes' technique of translating photographs of the cityscape he had taken into his work. Reflecting and refracting images where the major features of the cityscape are still identifiable and realistic but have been repurposed into the elements of a new piece of art. A true artifact of Estes's style and talent.
