Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns; Latvian: Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. Vija Celmins paintings and drawings feel at once mystical and philosophical.
Reviews Vija Celmins’s Stunning Show at the Met Breuer Is a Master Class in How Pictures Don’t Work Anymore. The survey presents the artist's counterintuitive mission: to … Vija Celmins, or often I use Vija Francis-Celmins, or sometimes Vija F. or just Vija C. Yes, a perpetual identity crisis. The artist Vija Celmins commands similar prices from a lofty collector base; Henry Kravis, J. Tomilson Hill, and Mitchell and Emily Rales own work by Celmins…
I love my art. Vija Celmins received international attention early on for her renditions of natural scenes—often copied from photographs that lack a point of reference, horizon, or discernable depth of field. To walk into Vija Celmins’s solo exhibition, her first in seven years, is to enter a world in gray. Through all of their insistent gray, they hum with an inherent melancholy, that somehow doesn’t deaden their sense of life and activity. Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings. Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, the artist’s first major retrospective in more than 25 years, will be on view at The Met Breuer from September 24, 2019, through January 12, 2020. Considered to be one of the most significant Latvian-American artists to date, Vija Celmins is a visual artist best known for her photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments.
Woodcut on … An important Latvian-American artist, Vija Celmins is most famous for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, deserts, and rocks. I love to paint. Description: VIJA CELMINS (american/latvian, b. In the mid-1960s, the artist began to use photographs from books, magazines, and newspapers found at secondhand stores and yard sales as the point of departure for her work.
Multiplicity features 83 works from the museum’s permanent collection by such outstanding contemporary artists as John Baldessari, John Cage, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, R. This is the website of Vija Francis-Celmins. Explosion at Sea belongs to a group of paintings by Vija Celmins on the themes of war, technology, and devastation. 1939)/span "NIGHT SKY" 1997, pencil signed and dated 1997, numbered 25/30, with full margins, published by Grenfell Press, New York for the Instititute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Shop for canvas prints, framed prints, posters, greeting cards, and more.