Nathaniel Robinson’s Untitled, 2020 on David Zwirner
“Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her.” -- Auguste Rodin
When viewing the art piece, I could feel the difference between ordinary oil paintings between Nathaniel Robinson’s paintings. The painting itself does not have its own emotion, but the painter always puts some artificial process to the painting, like changing sunlight, adding figures. But Nathaniel Robinson does not choose to do those kinds of “embellish”, he is faithful to the view itself. The lighting, the trees, and the building are always the three main parts of his paintings. Everything is just right. Even though the objects he painted are not a grand view of an exquisite set, sometimes the view is Radia Bur just like a random picture I just took from a moving car.
From his bibliography, we know that The New York Times described Robinson as a “remarkably inventive sculptor (making) technically impressive philosophically provocative works that play in the gap between perception and cognition”. This is a very precise description. His angle, view, psychology is totally different than any other painter. I am not saying he is the best, but he is really good at using the scene to comfort the viewer’s feelings and stop from anxious quick pace which can be always seen in the new york city. I tried to search for more info about his painting on social media, but none is them is richer than the description that is already given by David Zwirner. “These unplanned intermixing of natural and built worlds” consists of the views that people see in daily life.
I’d like to die in this peace.
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