United States contemporary printmaker Gordon Mortensen was born in 1938 in North Dakota, United States. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1964 and attended graduate studies at the University of Minnesota from 1969 to 1972. He began as a portrait painter, but later he almost completely abandoned the creation of portraiture in favor of out-of-print woodcuts, where he gained the creative freedom he wanted. During this transitional period, he briefly taught at the St. Paul's Museum of Art, the Rochester Center for the Arts, and the Minnetonka Center for the Arts in Wezata, Minnesota. His prints have been exhibited at the United States Art Museum, the Fuji Art Museum in Tokyo, and the Art Institute of Chicago, and he has been honored as a United States artist and a world celebrity.
Work appreciation
Throughout his career, Gordon Mortensen has worked to depict the magnificent landscapes of the United States West. Most of his paintings are presented in a "big field", with romantic characteristics, full and vivid colors with a sense of layering, and he often uses natural colors and bright and clear textures to represent the sky, water and ground. The lines of the picture are clean and neat, the painting style is steady and delicate, and each work strives to let the viewer feel the rich imagination and delicate emotional world of the creator, and have a beautiful experience like a journey.
Mortensen's use of negative space is also a notable feature of his work, and he often incorporates large blank spaces into his work. He uses traditional woodblock printmaking methods to create his prints. He usually draws a design from a wooden block, then uses various tools to carve into shape, and then uses 64 kinds of inks to transfer the image to paper, a process that usually takes about 3 months, so his works have a delicate sense of color layering, very visual impact, and convey a unique perception of life and nature in the subtle changes of color and light and shadow.
I'm fascinated by scenes that seem like nothing more than layers of busy, noisy, random chaos. Those all sorts of weird, prickly, rugged, weird shapes, they make up a mess that is unlike anything you can plan or imagine. The potential to find something profoundly expressive is waiting to be discovered.
——Gordon Mortensen
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巴勃罗·毕加索 Pablo Picasso,安迪.沃霍尔, 文森特.梵高Vincent Gogh, 亨利.马蒂斯Henri Matisse, 弗里达·卡罗 F.KAHLO, 格哈德·里希特 G.Richter, 威廉·阿道夫·布格罗 W A Bouguereau, 马克·夏加尔M. Chagall, 克劳德·莫奈 C.Monet, 伦勃朗·哈尔曼松·凡·莱因 Rembrandt, 圭尔奇诺 Guercino, 马蒂亚·普雷蒂 Preti, 翁贝特·波丘尼 U. Boccioni, 鲁西奥·芳塔纳 L.Fontana, 弗朗西斯·培根 F. Bacon, 让-米歇尔.巴斯奎特J.M.Basquiat, 拉斐尔·桑西 Raphael, 卡纳列托 A. Canaletto, 保罗·委罗内塞 Veronese, 皮埃尔.奥古斯特.雷诺阿 P.A. Renoir, 保罗.塞尚P.Cezanne, 雷尼·马格利特 R.Magritte, 萨尔瓦多.达利 S. Dali, 阿梅代奥.莫迪利亚尼 A.Modigliani, 希罗尼穆斯·博斯 H.Bosch, 弗朗西斯科.戈雅 F.Goya, 彼得.保罗.鲁本斯 P.P. Rubens, 丁托列托 Tintoretto, 弗朗索瓦·布歇 F. Boucher, 安东尼·凡·克 A.Van Dyck, 弗朗西斯柯·德·苏巴朗 F. Zurbaran, 草间弥生, Kaws, 奈良美智, 赵无极等