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Pro tip for all you artists out there: make your work look exactly like a photograph and you will win cash prizes! The NY Times reports that 50-year-old Brooklyn painter Ran Ortner was awarded the grand prize of $250,000 last night at ArtPrize, a public competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
That's allegedly the biggest chunk of change anyone has received in an art competition. Ortner's work, Open Water No. 24 (a three-panel depiction of deep blue waves) was the only painting in the top 10, and was up against 1,200 pieces.
The Brooklyn gallery representing him is Causey Contemporary on Grand Street; see more of his work here.
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this guy is pretty amazing!
here's his site:
http://www.ranortner.com
"Pro tip for all you artists out there: make your work look exactly like a photograph and you will win cash prizes!"
At least that's better than making your work look like you flung paint at a canvas, as if you're a two year old throwing a tantrum.
yah bro, i paint waves, check it out duderinos, now i's got more cash for my zen, peace
""Pro tip for all you artists out there: make your work look exactly like a photograph and you will win cash prizes!""
kind of like how you make your articles look exactly like articles other people have wrote?
Well before photography, artists were judged on their ability to paint realistically, nobody was interested in their "self expression." Not sure why that's a put-down here. Rembrandt or Vermeer would not have made much of a living doing portraits that looked like an explosion in a paint factory.
This Big Waves painting looks good from what I can see here.
Well before photography, artists were judged on their ability to paint realistically, nobody was interested in their "self expression."
Incorrect
Rembrandt and Vermeer were interested in self-expression more than any other Dutch artist of their time. Their paintings are incredibly personal.
Looks like an amazing, "handmade" work. Must be even more stunning in person, judging from his win. Photorealistically painting any water is difficult, and I've got to believe that open ocean water is the hardest of all to capture. It's not about mimicking a Gursky; it's about the skill level that's required to even make the comparison. Well done, Ran.
It's very masterful, but I'll take Vija Celmins any day.
Michigan has the highest rate of unemployment in the US and it also ranks extremely high in home foreclosures. So Michigan is in bad shape. Where does any entity in Michigan find $250,000 to award to an artist?
which is not to say that the artist didn't deserve the award or that his art is not exceptional.
great technique and some of his waves look downright terrifying. but honestly, i would get bored painting the same subject over and over and over again.
Pro tip for all y'all artists out there: make your work look exactly like a photograph and you will win cash prizes!
fixed.
@ just saying (#8)
- the $449K in prize money came from 'web entrepreneur' Rick DeVos, a grandson of Rich DeVos (Amway co-founder, gazillionaire).
Oh, the same jesus freaks that spent millions on full page ads and retarded crosses along highways?