Dike Blair Matinee - Distributed Art Publishers Inc

Blairs Painterly Use Of Mise-en-scne Evokes The Influence Of Edward Hoppers Cinema-inspired Tableaux This Volume Builds On A Developing Body Of Scholarship Linking The American Painters Dike Blair (born 1952) And Edward Hopper (18821967) To Each Other. In Both Hoppers Tableaux And Blairs Mise-en-scnes, Light Is A Character In Its Own Right, Whether Casting An Eerie Pallor On A Desolate Interior Or Illuminating The Lip Of A Half-drunk Glass; Both Artists Imply Narratives Without Offering Definitive Plots, Inviting The Viewer To Stitch Together A Story From Images And Absences. Matinee Foregrounds The Realism Of Blair And Hopper Within The Context Of The Utter Irreality Of The Movies, Lambent And Liminal.