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thomas ackermann
Canada
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The aesthetics of cans
16 pieces
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 68x76in
About this artwork
In 2005 I became pre-occupied with the poster-child of pop art, Andy Warhol. I considered his paintings banal and mundane, particularly since he emerged from one of the most explosive decades in painting, called abstract expressionism. It wasn't until I realized that his vision articulated the spirit of the times more than any other artist. He may well have reacted to the painters of the previous generation with his cookie-cutter repetitive paintings,…
but elegantly exposed the shallow nature of the society and culture he was a part of.
"5 Empty Soup-Cans" is my acknowledgement and recognition of the importance of this artist. The painting is nothing like Warhol might have painted. In fact, it is the abstract expressionist artists who populate my psyche in my approach to the subject of Warhol's iconic soup-cans.
"5 Empty Soup-Cans" is my acknowledgement and recognition of the importance of this artist. The painting is nothing like Warhol might have painted. In fact, it is the abstract expressionist artists who populate my psyche in my approach to the subject of Warhol's iconic soup-cans.
thomas ackermann
Canada
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Thomas Ackermann, trained at York University and The New School of Art, in Toronto Canada. He was mentored by some of the best artists in the country who taught at the NS of A. Over a span of 50+ years of painting he has developed a unique method and manner of application of paint to the canvas surface that confronts the viewer with the overwhelming feeling that in the case of Ackermann‘s paintings, "the medium is the message", a brilliant proposition coined by Marshall McCluhan. Unrestricted in his choice of subject matter, his paint surfaces transcend conventional expectations that engage the viewer more directly into his curious, artistic vision. In an interview, Ackermann once remarked, that his deepest motivation to make a painting, comes from his “romance with eternity”, which might explain the fact there is always a sense of the unexpected in his immensely diverse body of work.
