By Betsy Weis
Located in Hudson, NY
2015 black and white archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
10 x 15 inches unframed
16.5 x 21.5 inches framed $1250
Photographed in Maine, this black and white archival pigment print by Betsy Weis captures white birch trees in rows. The ordered arrangement evolves into an organic complexity as the trunks spread out into branches.
This photograph is available unframed. The image measures 10 x 15 inches.
16.5 x 21.5 inches framed $1250
Artist statement:
Nature provides the perfect model of beauty, according to Plato and Socrates. In the classical period, something was considered beautiful because it existed in nature; art was secondary. In the 18th Century, the German philosopher Johann Joachim Winckelmann argued against the idea that art imitates life, believing that qualities superior to nature are found in art, specifically, ideal beauty, and “brain-born images”. Neoclassical thought represented that art need not serve any end other than its own existence. For me, beauty is an ideal, nature is real, and art comes from the brain.
I take pictures in nature, finding shifting, disparate, and beautiful landscapes. I develop my pictures of trees...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
MaterialsArchival Pigment
