Simon dinnerstein paintings

Simon Dinnerstein born February 16, is an American artist, best known for the painted work, The Fulbright Triptych One of two children, his older brother Harvey Dinnerstein was also an artist. He lectures widely and has lectured at Pennsylvania State University. Dinnerstein's art is mostly in the figurative style, [ 5 ] with folkexpressionisticand surrealistic influences, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] possessing a " narrative " [ 6 ] and " psychological edge".

Dinnerstein renders still-lifesbut most of his work involves portraiture or human figures. He often "paints the figure in unexpected juxtaposition with landscape or interior elements", [ 2 ] of which Dinnerstein says. Hopefully my work speaks to these issues. Often the human figures are portrayed against a background of hyperreality[ 7 ] or in dreamy surreal landscapes.

Dinnerstein's most notable painting, The Fulbright Triptychwas started in Germany in [ 16 ] while he served as a Fulbright Scholar in Graphics. It was completed in Writer Jonathan Lethem commented: "Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych is one of those singular and astonishing works of art which seem to imply a description of the whole world merely by insisting on a scrupulous gaze at one perfect instant.

The central panel consists of the artist's desk, engraving tools, a copper disk of the commissioned Fulbright engraving project, and an outward view in perspective of Hessisch Lichtenau near to Kassel. Widely praised, with each viewer bringing a different sensibility and interpretation of the work, the painting is the subject of numerous essays, articles, and books, including The Suspension of Time: Reflections of Simon Dinnerstein's 'The Fulbright Triptych ' edited by Daniel Slager, published Among the many who have commented on the painting are art critic John RussellGuggenheim Foundation director Thomas M.

Both wife and daughter as an infant figure prominently in The Fulbright Triptych as well as other works. Dinnerstein resides in Brooklyn, where, in addition to practicing his art, he teaches classes on art history and appreciation. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.

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I had a job working one evening a week, and every other day all I did was work on this painting. Inthough, that changed, with the German Consulate General in New York simon dinnerstein paintings the triptych in a Dinnerstein exhibition that also featured some of his later works—psychologically loaded paintings and drawings with doses of Magical Realism.

In another raveRoberta Smith lamented that the Metropolitan Museum of Art had not bought the work. That same year, he published The Suspension of Timean anthology of essays on the work, and the painting has since traveled to shows in Columbia, Missouri, and Elmira, New York, where I saw it. He sounded excited and fulfilled. Still, the work he completed 45 years ago in some ways eludes him, as it has eluded so many others.