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Lydersen, Dan More info
Edition Details
Year:2013
Class:Original Art
Status:Official
Released:08/10/13
Technique:Original Mixed Media
Paper:Panel
Size:6 X 6
Markings:Signed
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Oil on panel.

Dan Lydersen's paintings combine the hyperrealist's precision with the surrealist's penchant for discord. His paintings combine historical and pop-cultural references to create compellingly provocative imagery. Clearly citing the historical precedents of allegorical painting, dating as far back to the Renaissance and even beyond to the medieval morality painting, Lydersen explores the medium's history as a long-established vehicle for cultural meaning and spiritual excavation. By creating a palpable tension between the real and the construct, the contemporary and the past, the artist blurs their distinctions expertly. Lydersen is interested in the established role of painting as a view into the world and our cultural motivations. The viewer is left confounded, and at times disturbed, by the powerful juxtapositions tendered. The artist oscillates between blatant bombast and subtle revelation to keep the viewer searching for narrative fragments and the synthesis of unlikely interrelationships. Lydersen's approach to painting actively explores its legacy as a heightened simulation of space, albeit an innately imperfect one, acting as a mirror unto the world and reflecting our deepest identifications, horrors, and angsts back into our sight lines.
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