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Ian Hornak
Ian Hornak, Very Baroque Flowerpiece with Red Birds of Paradise, Shining Parrot
1989

Name: Ian Hornak, Very Baroque Flowerpiece with Red Birds of Paradise, Shining Parrot
Brand: Ian Hornak
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IAN HORNAK (1944–2002) Title: Very Baroque Flowerpiece with Red Birds of Paradise and Shining Parrot Date: 1989 Medium: Acrylic on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame Dimensions: 58.5 x 47.5 inches (148.59 x 120.65 cm) Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, and titled by the artist Provenance: Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York; Dwight Opperman, Beverly Hills This distinguished painting by Ian Hornak, titled Very Baroque Flowerpiece with Red Birds of Paradise and Shining Parrot, was created in 1989 and stands as a seminal example of his celebrated Hyperrealist still-life series. In this work, Hornak reimagines the grandeur of Dutch Golden Age flower painting through the lens of late twentieth-century realism, merging classical illusionism with a modern intensity of color and precision. The meticulously rendered bouquet, surrounded by exotic birds, shells, and botanical elements, conveys both exuberance and serenity, uniting scientific observation with poetic invention. The composition is further enhanced by Hornak’s hallmark innovation—the “painted frame”—wherein the imagery of the central panel extends seamlessly across the frame, collapsing the boundary between artwork and environment. This integration of frame and image transforms the painting into an immersive visual experience, epitomizing Hornak’s lifelong pursuit of beauty, depth, and technical mastery. Ian Hornak (1944–2002) was an American draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. He was one of the founding artists of the Hyperrealist and Photorealist fine art movements, credited with having been the first Photorealist artist to incorporate the effect of multiple exposure photography into his landscape paintings, which foreshadowed the prevalence of digital manipulation in painting and photography, and the first contemporary artist to entirely expand the imagery of his primary paintings onto the frames. His brilliant fusion of technical precision, poetic imagination, and visionary detail positioned him among the most accomplished and conceptually innovative painters of the postwar era. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Michigan, Hornak became a key figure in the development of Photorealism and later Hyperrealism, producing luminous landscapes, intricate floral still lifes, and dreamlike multi-exposure compositions that elevate realism beyond the photographic into the spiritual and psychological. Drawing on the breakthroughs of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, he synthesized the lessons of Cubism, Surrealism, and high Modernism with a rigorously classical technique rooted in Renaissance glazing and Dutch-Flemish draftsmanship. He openly admired the visual intelligence of the Golden Age masters—Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jan van Eyck, Frans Hals, Jacob Jordaens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan Steen, and Aelbert Cuyp—whose mastery of light, atmosphere, and symbolic detail profoundly shaped his aesthetic. At the same time, he moved in New York circles that included Pop and contemporary artists—Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Lowell Nesbitt, and Willem de Kooning—positioning him at the crossroads of realism, abstraction, and conceptual exploration. Hornak’s paintings have been acquired by and exhibited at respected institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, the Austin Museum of Art, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, the Canton Museum of Art, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, the Detroit Historical Museum, the Flint Institute of Arts, the Forest Lawn Museum, Galleria Internazionale, The George Washington University Art Galleries, Guild Hall, the Children’s Hospital Boston (Harvard Medical School affiliate), the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, the National Czech Slovak Museum Library, the National Hellenic Museum, the Ringling College of Art and Design, the Rockford Art Museum, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, the Florida State Capitol, St. Mary’s University, Texas, The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, and the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. This wide institutional recognition attests to Hornak’s significance as a major American painter whose technical mastery and conceptual depth have earned enduring scholarly and curatorial attention. His paintings are distinguished by jewel-like surfaces, luminous transparency, and an exceptional command of layered color and form, and his technique—often extending the painted image beyond its traditional boundaries with illusionistic frames and architectural motifs—has had a lasting impact on generations of realist, botanical, and hyperrealist artists who continue to explore the psychological and perceptual complexities of visual experience. Celebrated during his lifetime for uniting Old Master craftsmanship with late-20th-century visual culture, Hornak remains a pivotal figure in American realism. In 2017, a painting by Ian Hornak created in 1988, Large Orchid Bouquet, was sold in a private transaction to the Van Andel family, the co-owners of Amway, for 165,000 USD (219,168.11 USD, calculated for inflation in 2025), setting the record for the highest price paid for a floral painting by the artist. Keywords: Ian Hornak painting, Photorealism, Hyperrealism, American Realism, floral still life, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, Dwight Opperman collection, acrylic on panel, painted frame, Hyperrealist still life, Postwar American art, Photorealist masterwork, contemporary realism, collectible American art.

Creator:
Ian Hornak (1944 - 2002, American)
Creation Year:
1989
Dimensions:
Height: 58.5 in (148.59 cm)Width: 47.5 in (120.65 cm)
Medium:
Acrylic
Movement Style:
Photorealist
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Fairfield, CT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1342115691752

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