Van Tame. Speed and city.
Born in Laos, and living in Lyon, France, painter Van Tame captures the poetry of motion in the visual world. Reality is a living entity to Van Tame, and in his work it shifts about before our eyes. The cars and even the streets of his varied cityscapes nearly burst with color as they speed past shadows that sparkle with flecks of red and yellow. Palm trees and car headlights spray color. Sky and architecture are regularly counterpoised, and perspective becomes a means of exploring the expressive resonance of color. The rush of motion is Van Tame's subject, motion that is both physical and emotional.
Sunlight, whether brooding and autumnal or blazing in the height of summer, is key to Van Tames work. His detailed and energetic streetscapes embrace the various ways light illumines and shapes our perceptions. On his canvases, reality shakes and trembles, and yet Van Tames work is at heart representational; the emotional resonance of a piece dominates over formalism. His early background in Asian culture influences his work even now; Van Tame distills what he sees and feels, and implies details through gentle yet vigorous brushwork. His intensity of focus and his passion make his paintings faithful to both reality as well as to his artistic concerns as a committed and original painter.
Artist Van Tame.
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Van Tame
