Loren DiBenedetto

TANGERINES - Contemporary Realism / Still Life / Fruit

2022

Original Oil painting by Edward A. Butler. Edward A. Butler (b. 1948, Philadelphia, PA) completed his BFA at the Philadelphia College of Art. A passionate painter from a young age, ...

Original Painting by Loren DiBenedetto. Loren DiBenedetto (b. Carteret, NJ) received a degree in Fine Arts from the Du Cret School of the Arts in Plainfield, NJ. She furthered her s...

Tangerines - sill life composition - exquisite highly contemporary still life drawing / mixed media work, created with watercolor and dry pigment and conte crayon on paper that is 30...

My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions. It is at this beginning stage that I operate under the Dadaist dictate that “anything can be art”, and at the same time I seek out a balanced and harmonious composition by way of line, shape, and color. I work according to my whimsy, sometimes seeking to assert some form of narrative however personal or ambiguous, and other times I am simply satisfied with the hint of a human presence. Once I have my compositions the paintings then very quickly become about work, a very labor intensive work that forces me to focus my mind and slow things down (which I feel is relevant especially in this day and age of high-speed everything). A great amount of effort is spent on trying to get to the highest level of finish that is possible according to my current skill level. For inspiration I have drawn from the past four centuries of object specific paintings, from the ontbijtjes (laid tables) of the 17th Century Dutch masters such as Willem Kalf, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Abraham van Beijeren...