Artist Statement - Esther Huser Oil paintings

Esther Huser Oil paintingsArtist StatementIn my work, I reconsider the question of Mimesis, traditionally related closely to realism art. My picture language consists of the false pretense that my paintings copy nature. In fact, I start out with a subject matter entirely designed and drawn in a digital medium like photoshop. I first create my own idealized view solely on a computer screen. The basis for these steps is my thousands of pictures I took over the past years. After having assembled a composition in photoshop, I have to adjust matching light and shadows and the value conditions on all the different pictures, before I start to paint my creation in oil. My artistic goal is to virtually design my own view of nature and pretend with the technique of realism art, that the viewer sees an existing part of a cabbage field. I create a paradox by taking advantage of a false pretense lying in realism art: that it is copying nature.

My vision of hope - Esther Huser

My vision of pride - Esther Huser

My vision of pride - Esther Huser

Brassica - Esther Huser

In my fathers garden - Esther Huser

First Light - Esther Huser

In the field - Esther Huser

Brassica 6 - Esther Huser

Cabbage (The field 1) - Esther Huser

Abu Markub II - Esther Huser

no title - Esther Huser

Red Cabbage - Esther Huser

Gunnera - Esther Huser

Gunnera 2 - Esther Huser

Magnolia - Esther Huser

Downtown (Zürich) - Esther Huser

Rana - Esther Huser

rust - Esther Huser

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