Physical Description
- Medium
- inkjet print
- Support
- paper
- Dimensions
- 125.7 cm 124.5 cm (Object)
- Object Description
- Kevin Schmidt’s works often engage with the history of representations of landscape. At least since the Group of Seven painters, the Canadian landscape has often been depicted as a sublime, unpopulated wilderness. For this photograph, Schmidt hiked into the forests of central British Columbia in search of a panoramic lake view that was interrupted by a lone tree; that tree was then transformed into a pictorial prop. A plaster-like substance was applied to the bark to produce a smooth surface onto which was rendered in paint an image depicting the scene that is hidden from view behind the tree. The dual view is a playful comment upon reality and representation in the history of artistic rendering of the landscape.
History
- Collection
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
- Credit Line
- Purchased with support from the Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation, 2006
- Related Exhibitions
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