Mark Lang’s paintings play on the history of art, using paintings as integral props. “The onlooker has a special sense that the museum gallery site is itself the spectacle and we are all just players on this stage,” says critic John K. Grande.
There is art in Lang’s art and it is literally painted into the picture. An endless series of references to historically significant paintings and painters make you aware that you are participating in a kind of voyeuristic behavior. – Galerie de Bellefeuille
Mark Lang was born in Red Deer, Alberta and now is based in Montreal. He’s a graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, and The School of Visual Arts in New York City. He worked through the ’90s as a freelance illustrator for many well known publications in The United States and Canada, and began exhibiting as a painter in 1995. He has been supported by the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec, and is a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.
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I saw these and it captured my eyes immediately drawing me to each one!
Yes, these are unusually special, I agree. Thanks for taking the time to leave your thoughts.
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Mark Lang is amazing. Love his
3 graces
Great, thanks. I hadn’t seen the 3 Graces. Appreciated.
I wouldnt want to be there.
My jaw will drop every time.
Amazing! Great concept, clever thinking, very artistic, and whole lotsa skills. Looks so realistic.
So glad you enjoyed this artist. I really like this concept.
I feel an immediate attraction to these – they are lighthearted, though seriously well-rendered artworks.
I agree about how well rendered they are. Fabulous technique. So good it’s almost not noticeable.
i like the first one very much. so lonely.
Y’know, you’re right about the lonely. Kind of isolated. Good point.
These are wonderfully thought provoking to me… I am always thinking about how Big Book art history can wind its way into images and become contemporary, (or is it how contemporary art can reference art history in a meaningful way?)… anyway, I love his painting!
That’s true, isn’t it, how he’s integrated the contemporary with the history. Simple concept, but you don’t see it so well executed very often.
Great works. The second last one is very piquing.
Good word for that painting. I love those colors