Charles Wildbank, Large Still Life Photorealism Acrylic Painting Candy Canes in Vase Photo Realist

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Charles Wildbank (American, b. 1948)
Photorealist Still Life Painting "Candy Sticks",
Acrylic on canvas
Signed in bottom right corner recto … more Charles Wildbank (American, b. 1948)
Photorealist Still Life Painting "Candy Sticks",
Acrylic on canvas
Signed in bottom right corner recto

Charles Bourke Wildbank, native New York, Long Island based artist, delved into photorealism while at Pratt Institute, created a sensation on Fifth Avenue with a giant sparkling rendering of the famed Cartier diamond, and has painted portraits of David Hockney and the late Luciano Pavarotti. His signature paintings include a variety of seascapes, florals, still life creations, and portraits. He has created commissioned and exhibited works that now frequent various institutions and personal art collections all over the country. He grew up frequenting museums and art collections worldwide, absorbing energy and inspiration from various significant artists. He has also brushed shoulders and learned from some of the global art scene’s most prominent names, including people like Andrew Wyeth, Audrey Flack, Neil Welliver, and David Hockney.
His latest achievements include two 18-foot-high murals commissioned by the Cunard Line for the new luxury ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2. Wildbank is listed with some of his works in Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary book by Deborah Sonnenstrahl . He has conducted workshops at Poppi in Italy during fall of 2002 and Giverny in France during spring of 2006.


The name Photorealism (also known as Hyperrealism or Superrealism) was coined in reference to those artists whose work depended heavily on photographs, which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy. The exactness was often aided further by the use of an airbrush, which was originally designed to retouch photographs. The movement came about within the same period and context as Conceptual art, Pop art, and Minimalism and expressed a strong interest in realism in art, over that of idealism and abstraction.
The first Photo realist artists were Chuck Close, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Robert Bechtle, Audrey Flack, Denis Peterson, Lowell Nesbitt and Malcolm Morley. Each began practicing some form of Photo realism around the same time, often utilizing different modes of application and techniques, and citing different inspirations for their work. However, for the most part they all worked independent from one another. For example, Chuck Close came of age at the height of Pop art and Andy Warhol's Factory, and was based out of SoHo in lower Manhattan. And Audrey Flack, a graduate of Yale, began creating photo-based works in the early 1960s. less