Randall Rosenthalis one of those artists whose work is impossible to discover without employing some exaggeration . He turns two childlike materials — a individual block of wood and a minuscule paint — into sculptures better than the practiced still - life paintings you ’ve ever seen .
He make comic books , great deal of newspaper , baseball posting , money , and more with such care to detail it ’s backbreaking to secernate them from the real deal . Even more singular , he does n’t usea exposure or model , but works from retention .
Rosenthal , who live in New York , graduate from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in the late‘60sand started his career as a cougar before focusing on architectural invention and then sculpture .
Of his work , Rosenthal toldrh+artmagazinein 2012 , “ The sculptures I create have no meaning other than trying to create a very potent ocular picture . I have my own intellect why I think it works but I prefer other meanings are provided by the viewer . ”
He added that the sculptures are not meant to be hyperrealistic , and that closer review reveal their true wooden nature . Coulda fooled us .
Scroll below to see more of Rosenthal ’s work . you could also see ( and purchase ) his pieces throughBernarducci . Meisel . Gallery .
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Courtesy of Randall Rosenthal
Courtesy of Randall Rosenthal
Courtesyof Randall Rosenthal
Courtesy of Randall Rosenthal
