George Deem has deployed his virtuoso skills as a painter for over forty years, applying the traditional paint effects and glazes of the Masters with modern wit and freshness. This is the most comprehensive collection of his work ever assembled, introduced here by Robert Rosenblum.
Deem 'rebuilds' much loved favourites, by Vermeer and Velázquez, among many others, using uncannily authentic techniques. In Deem's hands, they become something different and surprising: a Vermeer room but without people, turned into an exquisite 'new' composition; or a heap of familiar Cubist images piled against a wall, seen as though taken out of their frames for the holiday season.
The tour of Western art, Deem-style, is an eye-opener - a maverick guide through the styles of Western art, starting with the Renaissance, continuing through the American tradition, and into twentieth-century Modernism.These 'paintings of paintings', new works from old, are amusing, informative and - above all - testament to the love that George Deem has for painting and all its pleasures.
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