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The photographs of New Yorker Raїssa Venables portray distorted rooms with intoxicating colours in a surreal manner. Despite the absence of people in her photographs, we still feel their souls in the rooms. Although her work is contemporary, involving the engagement of the latest technology, Venables is influenced by important artistic innovations in history. This includes the usage of perspectives and colours of the classical Renaissance, the Expressionist exploration of the relationship between colours and emotions, and the Cubist experimentation of depicting an object in multiple viewpoints on canvas. Venables’s photographs allow the viewers to imagine the dreams, nightmares, and events that took place in those spaces. ==Background and Education== Raïssa Venables was born in 1977 in New Paltz, in the state of New York, U.S.A.. She has roots from Italy on her maternal grandmother’s side and Irish roots on her other grandmother’s side. Thus from an early age, Venables was introduced and exposed to the canons of European art. In 1993, Venables attended the Arts Student’s League in New York. During her 4-year matriculation, she concentrated on the Anatomy for Life Drawing. Venables developed an understanding of the system of proportion through drawing, which was a fundamental part of an artist curriculum since the Renaissance time. This would play a crucial role in her future photography work. Venables continued her studies at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri, USA, where she received a BFA in Photography and Ceramic Sculpture in 1999. Studying these two medium inadvertently led Venables to merge the principles of each medium in her work. For Venables, ceramic sculpting creates an enclosed space where things happening inside are separated from the outside world. This is one of the several underlying themes that Venables incorporates in her photographic work. Venables pursued a master's degree in her preferred medium, photography, at the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College. She received an MFA in Photography in 2002. Venables has also completed several residencies, including one at the Galerie SPHN in Berlin and one with the (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ) in New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raissa Venables」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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