The Masterful Art of Richard Estes and Ray Charles: A Visual And Musical Journey!

Paintings shared/courtesy of the Richard Estes Collection.

Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932, in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters as John Baeder, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, and Duane Hanson. Author Graham Thompson writes "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs.

MUSIC

Song: "The Man I Love" written by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin. Performed and recorded by Ray Charles from the 1957 Atlantic Records Album, The Great Ray Charles.

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