Arkansas artist George Dombek has sold his work to over sixty museums and corporate collections, including two works to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. He has received numerous awards, including the Arkansas Arts Council's Lifetime Achievement Award. Dombek was born in Paris, Arkansas, the son of a coal miner. He became fascinated by art at the age of seventeen when he read about the work of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline in Time magazine. Concerned that he couldn't earn an adequate living as an artist, he studied architecture but was later drawn back into art and earned a master's in painting. Throughout his career, he has practiced and taught architecture, while devoting his principal effort to painting, particularly in watercolor. All of Dombek's work, in one or another fashion, creates the illusion of reality by following a step-by-step process of construction, similar to the work of an architect or a builder. Dombek has used this method, which he calls constructed realism, to explore a variety of subjects in a way that seems to bridge the usual distinctions between real and abstract. George Dombek: Paintings collects some of the artist's most notable renderings of the themes he has pursued intensely for years: birds in trees, rocks, discarded cans and metal objects, enormous flowers seen in close-up, sticks bent in unusual ways, bicycles, and more.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
ISBN-10
1557286647
ISBN-13
9781557286642
eBay Product ID (ePID)
177615673
Product Key Features
Book Title
George Dombek : Paintings
Author
Henry Adams, George Dombek
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Techniques / Watercolor Painting, Individual Artists / Artists' Books, American / General, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
12in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
12in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nd237.D63d65 2014
Reviews
"Having an accomplished as well as acclaimed artist like George Dombek right in our Northwest Arkansas backyard is truly special. I've been a Dombek fan for many, many years and having the University of Arkansas Press publish this great retrospective of his work is a gift that lovers of American art will appreciate for many years to come." --JOHN TYSON, chairman of Tyson Foods