Alan Reid (artist)
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Alan Reid is a contemporary American
artist
who lives in New York City
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His gauzy, colored-pencil representational images of heiresses, bored fashionistas and aquiline beauties have been called provocatively light, with coloring as delicate as his women are elegant.
The work invites reasoning, provocation and negotiation of absurdist
scenarios involving majestic women in insipid situations.
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Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
who lives in New York City
New York City
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His gauzy, colored-pencil representational images of heiresses, bored fashionistas and aquiline beauties have been called provocatively light, with coloring as delicate as his women are elegant.
The work invites reasoning, provocation and negotiation of absurdist
Absurdism
In philosophy, "The Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any...
scenarios involving majestic women in insipid situations.