The Art of Oscar Beck

<body bgcolor="#bea98a" link="#336666" vlink="#336666" alink="#669999" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0"> <p><span class="texttitle">An introduction to the Paintings Sculpture and photo-realistic Drawings of Oscar Beck</span></p> <p><span class="texttitle"> </span></p> <p><span class="texttitle"> Excerpts from a review:</span></p> <p>"<span class="bold">OSCAR BECK</span> doesn't need the unpredictable variable of canvas, brush, and paint to express himself. He does very well with the humble graphite pencil. His remarkably rendered realistic drawings are meticulously worked creating nuance and subtlety.</p> <p><span class="bold">BECK'S</span> handling of these extremely detailed figures is structured to control the intricate play of surface and texture with great understanding. All of Beck's drawings pull the viewer in because of their substance and complexity."</p> <p class="reviewsource">EMANUEL HALLER, Art Critic<br> COURIER NEWS<br> May 9,1993</p> <p>"The needle sharp point of a pencil applied to the texture free surface of smooth paper enables me to achieve a high level of direct intimacy with the depicted patterns and the observed details of the visual world."<br> <img src="images/__spacer.gif" alt="" height="1" width="1" border="0" hspace="24" vspace="6"><span class="bold">Oscar Beck</span></p> <p><span class="texttitle">Oscar Beck<img src="images/__spacer.gif" alt="" height="1" width="1" border="0" vspace="12"></span> was born in Vienna, Austria in 1948. He spent most of his childhood in Sao Paolo, Brazil and moved to New York with his family in 1960. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Studio Art at William Paterson College in New Jersey and has studied the philosophy of art in the Doctoral Program at New York University.</p> <p><span class="texttitle">Oscar Beck's<img src="images/__spacer.gif" alt="" height="1" width="1" border="0" vspace="12"></span> work has been shown in galleries in the New York and New Jersey area. He has won a number of competitive prizes and his work has been reviewed in a variety of local publications. His work is in many private collections.</p> <p> </p> <p><span class="texttitle">Artist Statement:</span></p> <p class="justify">From the moment we are born we are conditioned by experience to define our ambient space in terms of foreground, middleground and background space. We are thus enabled, through this spatial differentiation, to effectively manipulate the world around us.</p> <p class="justify">My personal quest as an artist has, in part, involved a redefining of this three dimensional spatial differentiation into a two dimensional visual continuum. While progressing from foreground figure to background details during the execution of a drawing, I do not experience the aesthetic, physical, cognitive, or emotional transitional break associated with three dimensional space. The transition is instead a seamless flow, one pattern merging into another: the pattern of human hair merging into the smooth velvet of facial skin or the intricate patterns of a dress merging into the symmetry of garden flowers.</p> <p class="justify">The intense personal satisfaction arising from the exploration of such patterns, and the efficacy with which the graphite media enables me to engage in this exploration makes every potential subject matter equally rich in visual content. The needle sharp point of a pencil applied to the texture free surface of smooth paper enables me to achieve a high level of direct intimacy with the depicted patterns and the observed details of the visual world.<img src="images/__spacer.gif" alt="" height="1" width="1" border="0" hspace="20" vspace="5"><span class="bold">Oscar Beck</span></p> <p class="justify"><span class="bold"> </span></p> <p><span class="bold">Sorry, this website uses frames, but your browser doesn"t support them</span>.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </body>