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Christopher Orr

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Author : Christopher Orr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Christopher Orr written by Christopher Orr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Painters categories.

Most of London painter Christopher Orr's canvases are smaller than 10 inches square. Combining the style of nineteenth-century Northern Romantic painting with isolated images culled from vintage illustrated sources such as children's books, popular scientific journals and religious magazines, the paintings are moody and evocative, their figures "sleepwalking cyphers who have strayed here from an indeterminate elsewhere where they once had a purpose," according to essayist Caoimh'n Mac Giolla Léith. This volume is a delight, with deluxe paper cut to different sizes, an enclosed poster and a special half-soft-cover, half-hardcover cloth binding. Christopher Orr was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1967. He has had recent solo shows at Nyehaus, New York, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Ibid Projects, London, and Sister, Los Angeles. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Christopher Orr

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Author : Pat Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Jrp Ringier
Release Date : 2014

Christopher Orr written by Pat Fisher and has been published by Jrp Ringier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Painting, Scottish categories.

"The Beguiled Eye at the University of Edinburgh's Talbot Rice Gallery was Christopher Orr's first solo show in Scotland, bringing together new and recent paintings and featuring, for the first time, the artist's remarkable sketchbooks. Orr's oil paintings and watercolours offer enigmatic glimpses into other worlds where modern characters appear within expansive environments, laden with drama. The intriguing scenes derive from an appropriation of images from a vast range of visual materials, including National Geographic magazines, scientific manuals, 1950s snaps, art historical images and Super 8 films. Painting allows the artist to meld these diverse elements into coherent vignettes; people and objects encountering one another in what appear to be significant moments within larger schemes. In some of the scenes, characters parade in 1950s leisure wear into ethereal landscapes, lit by the heavenly skies of romantic painting, or equally, encroached upon by the dark gloaming of science fiction. In others, figures are beholden to strange geometric forms in the sky or stare at scientific models. Many evoke a sense of communion with the sublime, the otherworldly, the strange and the peculiar, while the human characters often remain impassive. Silent One (2010), for example, shows a couple in holiday dress staring into a dark rocky crevice from which emerges a pale, sombre, floating head. The couple are turned away so we cannot see their expressions, but their body language suggests calm acceptance of this strange spectre. Orr's use of delicately rendered characters against more expressive backdrops, borrowing from a vocabulary of Old Master's works, establishes one of the many dialogues within the paintings; meeting points between description and suggestion, the visible and invisible. Changes in scale and the remains of partially erased elements -- evidence of the working process -- add to the uncanny quality of the works, which nevertheless retain the logical coherence of memory, magic or symbolism. All in a moment through the gloom were seen (2014) depicts three figures looking ahead through luminous shadows: large ghostly figures, creeping across a dimly lit cavern. As with many of the works the true reality of the scene is not disclosed and remains a mystery. Is this a projection -- platonic shadows cast across the wall of the cave? Are they prophetic visions? Or are they wraith like forms indicative of fantasy fiction? The viewer is left to decide"--Talbot Rice Gallery website.

The Small Titanic

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Author : Chris Orr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

The Small Titanic written by Chris Orr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.

Disguise Factory

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Author : Chris Orr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Disguise Factory written by Chris Orr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Painting categories.

Chris Orr Cities Of Holy Dreams

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Author : Chris Orr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Chris Orr Cities Of Holy Dreams written by Chris Orr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Painting categories.

Chris Orr

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Author : Chris Orr
language : en
Publisher: Royal Academy Books
Release Date : 2008-09

Chris Orr written by Chris Orr and has been published by Royal Academy Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with Art categories.

The Multitude Diaries presents 238 of Orr's drawings from the last twenty years. Best known as a printmaker, Chris Orr RA is also a prodigious draughtsman. His drawings introduce a cast of characters, artefacts and symbols which appear and reappear against fictional and real backdrops, whether river, street or skyline. Often rehearsals for his prints and paintings, these drawings when combined form a scrapbook, recording the artis's ongoing preoccupations, observations and random inspirations. The result is a visual labyrinth, revealing the potential of the drawing-book as a place for experimentation and the panoramic scope of Orr's practice.