Painterly Aspects: Mark Lewis's New Films
Canadian Art, Fall 2003, v. 20, no. 3, pp. 90-93
A review of Mark Lewis's latest project presenting an 'artificially' natural world in classical bucolic poetic fashion through painting. The text discusses the artists visual influences and the irony of using two optical mediums to demonstrate conflicting visual ideas.
ITEM 2003.089 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Hunters in the Snow (1565) – Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Wanderer Looking over the Sea of Fog (1818) – Caspar David Freidrich
Monk by the Sea (1808-1809) – Caspar David Freidrich
Boat on the Elbe in the Early Fog – Caspar David Freidrich
Toteninsel (Isle of the Dead) (1883) – Arnold BÖckin
Airport – Mark Lewis
Algonquin Park – Mark Lewis
Smithfield – Mark Lewis