Title of the Exhibition:

Other Mirror

Date of Creation:
2006-2023
Genre:
Figurative, Nude, Landscape, Cityscape, Seascape
Period Movement:
Photorealism
Technique:
Painting
Materials:
Original digital artworks, original paintings on canvas
Dimensions:
Variable


Exhibition Description:
This series of epic photorealist works of art was started by the artist upon arrival to the United States in his 20-ies. Nicholaas Chiao softly altered his approach to the easel painting shifting from direct naturalism towards digitally collaged and altered imagery and these works reveal mutual influences of the artist and the new, American cultural environment. Realism was the initial style of painting that occupied Nicholaas Chiao from an early age. These photo-paintings take their tradition so early, as Nicholaas Chiao photorealistically depicted the Soviet jeep NIVA straight from the newspaper at the age of eight. An important place in his creative output is taken by the photorealist depictions of the museum galleries filled by visitors. This line of work was started by the artist upon a visit to the Rudolstadt castle in Germany together with his girlfriend. He took numerous photographs of her inside the castle and one photograph, on the tiled medieval floor, was an imminent success upon which he started to create a series of similar compositions. At the Affordable Art Fair in New York in 2006 3 large pieces were sold to American art collectors for $4800 each, a not-too-bad result for an emerging artist.