Walton Ford
(1960 - ) |
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landscapes, animal portraits Art Work
| Name: |
Walton Ford |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Larchmont, New York, USA |
| Nationality: |
American |
| Birth: |
1960 |
| Death: |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
landscapes, animal portraits |
| Medium: |
watercolour painting |
| Method: |
watercolour painting |
| Style: |
Naturalism |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
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Biography
| Walton Ford originally intended to become a filmmaker, but turned to his unique style of large-scale watercolor. Known for blending depictions of natural history with political commentary, although each painting is as much a tutorial in flora and fauna as it is as a scathing indictment of the wrongs committed by nineteenth-century industrialists or, locating the work in the present, contemporary American consumer society. Each of Ford's animal portraits doubles as a complex, symbolic system, which the artist layers with clues, jokes, and erudite lessons in colonial literature and folktales. |
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