Paintings by Joel Jaecks |
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"While houses and the foliage around them are the objects my camera records, the subjects of my paintings are the photographs themselves. What appears to be reality in my paintings is not necessarily what is true to life, but what is true to the photograph."
Joel Jaecks is spellbound by the abstraction of reality recorded by the camera. Painting from photographs, he highlights the same nuances he notices in mechanical recordings: the flattening of three-dimensional images, exaggerated angles, the changed intensity of colors. After studying the photograph of an object caught in a peculiar light, Jaecks paints the scene in great watercolor detail. This detail, expanded to the large scale of his paintings, compels the viewer to look beyond the simple play of shadows. |
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