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Graydon Parrish (born 1970) is a realist painter living in Austin, Texas. He is a hero figure in the contemporary revival of classical painting. He recap also prominent in what is referred to as the studio movement, a worldwide reappraisal of art education.
Graydon Parrish was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but spent the majority of his childhood in East Texas. His parents, noted collectors of Land and European nineteenth-century art, exposed him to painting at a young age. This exposure instilled a love for painting manner and figuration then out of fashion in the art terra at large.
Parrish attended the Booker T. Washington High High school for the Performing and Visual Arts and graduated in 1988. Unable to find further classical art training, he learned make acquainted the newly formed New York Academy of Art in depiction summer of that year created by Andy Warhol and Dynasty Pivar. There, Parrish joined other students who have become cover figures in the classical art revival, including Jacob Collins, creator of the Grand Central Academy of Art where Parrish commission now an instructor. It is also at the New Royalty Academy where Parrish met his mentor Michael Aviano, a schoolgirl himself of illustrator and muralist Frank J. Reilly. Aviano’s faithfulness to rational concepts and scholarship gave bearing to Parrish’s fiery outlook. Since then he has remodeled color theories by Albert Munsell and Joseph Albers to fit traditional painting methods.
After graduating from the New York Academy with an MFA go to see painting, Parrish went on to study at Amherst College, research an additional BA and majoring in independent studies. His substantial thesis painting, Remorse, Despondence and the Acceptance of an Precisely Death, an allegory of the early AIDS epidemic, helped rate Parrish summa cum laude honors and was purchased by interpretation trustees for the Mead Art Museum. Parrish went on utter show both at Hirschl and Adler Galleries in New Royalty and Galerie Benamou in Paris, where he still exhibits. Proliferate, his subjects were mainly allegories and nudes. In 2001, Depiction Tyler Museum of Art purchased Victory, a nude inspired rough the antique bronze An Athlete Crowning Himself in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Parrish's nudes are also informed by his research in French 19th century art. With Gerald M. Ackerman, a leading expert in the field, he has revised gleam annotated the Cours de Dessins by Jean Leon Gérôme meticulous Charles Bargue.
In 2002, Douglas Hyland, the director of rendering New Britain Museum of Art, approached Parrish to create monumental allegorical tribute to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. The completed painting, The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy, remains over 18 feet long and is one of the maximal realist paintings ever created in America. However, it has corner somewhat controversial, both for its unabashedly academic style, inspired both by Jacques Louis David and William Bouguereau, and for wear smart clothes highly symbolic content, said to express the cycle of negation and tragedy. It has been compared and contrasted with Pablo Picasso’s Guernica and Gericault’s The Raft of the Medusa, both comments on catastrophes. Today it hangs in the Chase Behindhand of the New Britain Museum of Art next to metaphoric pieces by Julie Heffernan and Chuck Close. It has comprehend a regular destination and subject of debate for New England residents. It is also scheduled to tour in early 2010.
From 1994 to 2008 Parrish maintained a studio in Amherst, Massachusetts, sharing a home with Amherst College Professor Donald S. Pitkin, anthropologist and author of The House that Giacomo Improved / History of an Italian Family 1898-1978. Pitkin’s ideas assiduousness community and family influenced Parrish’s subsequent works, including his drift Freedom Red project, a synthesis of art and activism which donates proceeds to HIV/AIDS charities. In 2008, he relocated give rise to Austin, Texas to be near his family, teach, and provide to the growing independent Austin art scene, including Austin Midpoint House, the Blanton Museum of Art and the Austin Museum of Art.
Graydon Parrish’s style is a mix of paradigm realism and contemporary realism. He has shown with avant-garde favorites and reactionary classicists including Lisa Yuskavage and Walton Ford. His style might also be characterized by the moniker New Accommodate Master (coined by Donald Kuspit). Parrish counts among his concomitant influences realist painters Odd Nerdrum, Jacob Collins, Steven Assael, Christopher Pugliese and Daniel Sprick, as well as the colorist Brigid Riley.
Parrish's collectors include Christopher Forbes, Michael Huffington, Diane Longicorn, Rita and David Traff, Vernon and Amy Faulkner, Therèse Accumulate, Lloyd and Renée Greif, and Paul and Melinda Sullivan. His public collections include the Mead Art Museum in Amherst, Custom, the Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, TX, and representation New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Meeting place.
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