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Robert Bechtle, Redux
In 2005 there was a superb retrospective of photo-realist painter Robert Bechtle’s work at SF MoMA. Christian Patterson’s post reminded me that after the show, I went out to find a few locations Bechtle had painted, and took snapshots for reference (1 & 2), to see how they had changed.
Tonight, I saw this Spark documentary (now, with podcast) about Bechtle and was really surprised to see him walking around the streets of Potrero Hill with his camera. I knew most photo-realists painted from projected slides, but I didn’t know Bechtle did his own photographing. Yeah!
“Since our lives today are so filled of pictures, with mediated images, with photographs, I think more and more that we tend to think of paintings as pictures; and of course they’re not, they’re paintings.” - Whitney Chadwick (Bechtle’s wife)
I nearly ran the two of them over once.
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