Rein Tammik
Les petites femmes I
| Artist: | Rein Tammik (1947 - ) |
| Title: | Les petites femmes I |
| Date: | 1997 |
| Technique: Material: |
oil, mixed media canvas |
| Height (cm): | 129.8 |
| Width (cm): | 89.0 |
| Description: | Rein Tammik's art historical pastiches and portraits that were painted during the 1970s and 1980s by using hyperrealist methods and show Soviet propagandists sitting at a table covered with a red chequered cloth, have always seemed slightly out of place in Estonian artistic circles that functions according to the rules of “good taste". Even the work from the series titled “Little Women of Paris" (in French, petites femmes), that incorporates an interior view, a nude and a still-life, Tammik ignores the categories of “high art". Tammik who got tired of copying the “old Dutch" and Caravaggio, found a fresh source of inspiration in his new home in France where he moved in the early 1990s - old erotic daguerreotypes in classic dark colouring, reminiscent of French academic painting. Because of their connection with the past they are now valuable enough to use. As the artist himself has said, he has no particular interest in erotica. In his paintings he is rather attempting to de-eroticize the mischievous preceding photographs of the 1860's. The red chequered ordinary tablecloths familiar to us primarily from the Soviet period that seem to be Tammik's artistic signature, also make a contribution to this particular work. Bordering between art and kitsch, the artist's choice of motifs does show a strong inclination towards the latter. Rein Tammik has primarily focused his attention on the technical side of art; a new method he has been using is the Giclée technique (a reproduction technique that lasts up to 200 years), that can be seen as an improvement to the reproductional problems faced by the hyperrealists. Instead of the old method used by hyperrealist artists of projecting slides onto the canvas, Tammik now uses modern computer technology. As a tribute to his earlier affection for hyperrealism, he is still interested in shiny objects that enable the painting of photograph-like effects. Anu Allas |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 7038 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 47401 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/1448708 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: TIF Compression: Uncompressed File size: 91.51MB Resolution: 4687*6823px @ 296dpi |
