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Doug Robinson
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Doug Robinson's work represents a playful merging between traditional painting and photo realism. Robinson steers a course between mid 20th century modernism and his contemporary milieu. Through deploying classical portrait geometry and
optics his paintings generate an ironic play of underlying geometries that bring to presence scenes densely layered with conflicting narratives.
Robinson articulates the disconnected nature of our every day. Consistent with
post modern practices in the photographic arts, Robinson is guided by the discipline of deconstructing the strictures of both representationalism and formalism.
Always aware of the larger historical lineage out of which painting has emerged,
Robinson's works are systematically governed by a strength of line and classical techniques used in the ordering and manipulation of perception. Both cerebrally and viscerally his work stands as an important contribution to the world of
contemporary visual arts.
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Van Art Gal Does The G7
27.5 x 44.25 Inches
acrylic on linen
$4,850
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Mission Fair
27.5 x 44.25 Inches
acrylic on linen
$4,850
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Duck Pond
42 x 34 Inches
acrylic on linen
$5,700
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Cowheeler Supreme
48 x 77.5 Inches
acrylic on linen
$19,600
Exhibited at Artropolis 2001, and the B.C.Festival of the Arts, Robinson’s “Cowheeler Supreme” is a wryly conceived portrait of a young woman smoking click here for more...
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Annie O'Brian
77.5 x 48 Inches
acrylic on canvas
$19,600
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End of the Day
21 x 34 Inches
acrylic on canvas
$4,300
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Stacked Chairs (edition of 8)
35 x 20 x 15 Inches
birch
$1,800
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Violence Between Consenting Adults
44.25 x 27.5 Inches
acrylic on linen
$4,850
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Van Art Gal
27.5 x 44.25 Inches
acrylic on linen
$4,850
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Dear Me
21 x 34 Inches
acrylic on linen
$3,750
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Manny's F&B Show Bar
36 x 48 Inches
acrylic on linen
$6,900
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Titian Formula
42 x 34 Inches
acrylic on linen
$5,700
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Sheena
77.5 x 48 Inches
acrylic on linen
$19,600
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Fat Guy
27.5 x 44.25 Inches
acrylic on linen
$4,850
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Tilt A Whirl
34 x 42 Inches
acrylic on linen
$5,700
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Biography |
Born in 1945 in Wolfville, NS, and raised in Noranda, Que, Doug Robinson bagan to paint at age 10. He was always fascinated with mathematics and its paradoxes, and it was during his involvement in the Dome Show at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the early 1970's, that he was inspired to apply mathematical calculus to painting.
Robinson was also intrigued as a child by the classical Greek pictorial ratio known as the Golden Section and he began to apply it directly to his work. Fully taken by the rigour of arranging his compositions mathematically , he later extended his analytic process to the use and understanding of colour,
Doug Robinson's work has been critically reviewed in several issues of the visual arts magazine, Artichoke.
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