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The Prague Project was an art project involving the photorealist painters Anthony Brunelli, Clive Head, Bertrand Meniel and Raphaella Spence, and the writer Michael Paraskos, held in Prague in 2003. It culminated in an exhibition at the Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, New York in 2004-2005, and an accompanying catalogue.〔Gregory Saraceno (ed.), ''The Prague Project'' (Binghampton: Roberson Museum and Science Center, 2004)〕 ==History== The Prague Project was organised by the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery in New York, involving the artists Anthony Brunelli, Clive Head, Bertrand Meniel and Raphaella Spence. The project began with a commission given to Brunelli to paint Prague, but quickly grew into a more elaborate project involving the three other artists, all of whom were associated with the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery at that time.〔(Meisel Gallery Website )〕 From this start the aim of the project became to send a group of Photorealist painters from Europe and the United States to the Czech capital Prague and ask them each to produce two paintings based on their experience of the city. These were then to be exhibited in the United States.〔Gregory Saraceno (ed.), ''The Prague Project'' (Binghamton: Roberson Museum and Science Center, 2004)〕 The artists travelled together to Prague, and stayed in the same accommodation, in order to promote a dialogue between them, and explore differing methods of photorealist painting. In this the participation of Clive Head is of significance as he has denied frequently he is a photorealist painter.〔See Michael Paraskos, ''Clive Head'' (London: Lund Humphries, 2010) ''passim''〕 At the request of Clive Head, the art critic Michael Paraskos was included in the trip to Prague. However he was not subsequently selected to write the catalogue essay that accompanied the exhibition of the paintings produced, with that role being taken instead by Gregory Saraceno.〔 The exclusion of Paraskos was possibly due to his known criticism of mainstream photorealist painting.〔See Michael Paraskos, 'The Real Deal' in ''The Epoch Times'' (UK edition of newspaper) 29 April 2009, p.10.〕 Nonetheless the exhibition was described by journalists as "showing the breadth and richness of photorealism."〔Sarah Miller, 'The Prague Project' in ''The Press and Sun Bulletin'' (New York newspaper), 7 October, 2004, p. 14 (Good Times section)〕 Also accompanying the artists was a film crew from Binghamton University invited by Anthony Brunelli to record the Prague visit. 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「The Prague Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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