UN NUCLEAR AGENCY MEETINGS INSPIRE AMERICAN ARTIST

UN NUCLEAR AGENCY MEETINGS INSPIRE AMERICAN ARTIST
New York, Dec 30 2008 6:10PM
Many artists draw inspiration in nature, but the latest works of American painter Lisa Ruyter have been impelled in an unlikely place: the meetings of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (<"http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/News/2008/artimitates.html">IAEA) Board of Governor's meetings.

Granted access to these gatherings as a journalist, Ms. Ruyter was able to observe the action and take photographs, which she used as a blueprint for her series entitled "Atoms for Peace."

Using bright shades and cool tones, her technique is similar to fellow American artist Andy Warhol's.

Currently, 17 paintings from the series – which has transformed seemingly normal images of IAEA Board of Governor's meetings into extraordinary artwork – are on display at the Georg Kargl Fine Arts Gallery in Vienna, Austria.

"What at first appear simple but giant paint-by-number works slowly reveal themselves to be complex arrangements of flat colours with poignant, powerful subject matter," the Gallery said in a press release.
Dec 30 2008 6:10PM
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