This book is a backpack manifesto. It tells the story of a realist painter at a time when realism was not in vogue. If you know Clark Hulings (1922-2011), this book presents him anew, highlighting the beauty of his paintings and the thought and empathy behind them. If you're new to Hulings, this book introduces you to a working artist whose subject was workagricultural, village, and market workdaily life in ancient places grappling with modernity in unique ways. For artists, this book will invigorate your practice as it discusses the education and process of a painter whose effort and work ethic took him to the summit of realist technique. For the art historian, this book secures Hulings's place in the continuum of European and American realism as portrait painter, illustrator, and fine artist, and in light of key aspects of modernism that he adapted to his art.
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'This book is a backpack manifesto. It tells the story of a realist painter at a time when realism was not in vogue. If you know Clark Hulings (1922-2011), this book presents him anew, highlighting the beauty of his paintings and the thought and empathy behind them.'Kiersten BuschAssistant Editor, Antiques and The Arts Weekly, USA
James D. Balestrieri is the principal of Balestrieri Fine Arts, a consulting firm that specializes in research, writing, and marketing for museums, auctions, and private sales. After a teaching career that included a spell as a Lecturer in Drama at the University of Aberystwyth, Wales, Jim went on to become Director of J.N. Bartfield Galleries in New York, where he worked for twenty years. He wrote the Scottsdale Art Auction catalogues for fifteen years, and has seen some two hundred of his feature essays and reviews published in national arts publications. Jim earned a BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University, New York, USA, an MA in English from Marquette University, Wisconsin, USA, an MFA in Playwriting and Theater from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA and studied at the American Film Institute, LA. He resides with his family in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, where he currently teaches English at the Milwaukee Area Technical College, writes, produces, and publishes plays and short stories, and continues his work in the arts.
