Daniel Sprick...극사실주의 정물화

Born:	May 1, 1953, Little Rock, Arkansas
Education:	AA-Mesa College, Grand Junction, CO; 1973 Ramon Froman School of Art National Academy of Design, New York, NY 1976 BA-University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 1978
Residence:	Dan lives in Glenwood Springs, Colorado with his wife, Andrea and daughter Elena

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Blue Bowl & Pears"	Oil & Board 20" x 24" - ©2005

 

 

 

 

 

"Self Portrait with Skull"	Oil & Board 34" x 46" - ©2001-2005

 

 

“I began drawing,” Daniel Sprick explains, “at age four. Dad showed me how.” Airplanes were a passion. The youngster associated their graceful contours with movement and eventually made elegance in drawing the equivalent of flight. Balsa wood gliders, looping and banking, focused Sprick’s imagination on the beauty of line. To this day, Sprick relates an “exquisite line” to being airborne. Each painting, he says, is his search for “just the right launch,” and exercise that must conclude in a perfect landing. Today he is both a widely recognized artist and an experience pilot. His exhilaration in flight informs such affectionate bits of iconography as the DC-3 (buzzing Leonardo da Vinci’s canon of human proportion) on the side of a milk carton, and the precarious feats of levitation performed by knives, eggs, and other unlikely objects in Flora Spirited and other works.

 

 

 

 

"Interior with Column"	Oil & Board 20" x 14" - ©2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Split Peas"	Oil & Board 36" x 48" - ©2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Cindy's Roses'"	Oil & Board 16" x 12" - ©2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Yellow Cloth & Sea"	Oil & Board 60" x 72" - ©2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Yellow Cloth & Sea (Detail)"	Oil & Board 60" x 72" - ©2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Winter Interior"	Oil & Board 20" x 20" - ©2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Still Life & Mirror"	Oil & Board 28" x 26" - ©2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Still Life With Milk Pitcher"	Oil & Board 24" x 24" - ©2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Still Life & Mirror"	Oil & Board 12" x 9" - ©2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Peeled Orange"	Oil & Board 24" x 28" - ©2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Passage"	Oil & Board 36" x 30" - ©2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Passage (Detail)"	Oil & Board 36" x 30" - ©2004

 

 

 

 

 

"Red & White Lillies"	Oil & Board 24" x 24" - ©2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Yellow Cloth"	Oil & Board 30" x 36" - ©2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Landscape & Pansies"	Oil & Board 24" x 30" - ©2003

 

 

 

 

 

"Still Life with Pansies"	Oil & Board 18" x 24" - ©2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

onion & Red Cloth"	Oil & Board 30" x 24" - ©2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Release Your Plans"	Oil & Board 60" x 66" - ©2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Apples"	Oil & Board 16" x 10" - ©2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

"A View of Denver"	Oil & Board 8" x 20" - ©2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Cherry Creek"	Oil & Board 24" x 30" - ©2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Chicken and Stars"	Oil & Board 22" x 28" - ©2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Corner Window II"	Oil & Board 24" x 36" - ©2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Corner Window I"	Oil & Board 16" x 20" - ©2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Corner Window III"	Oil & Board 40" x 50" - ©2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I-70"	Oil & Board 9" x 16" - ©2000

 

 

 

 

 

"Intentions Create Reality"	Oil & Board 50" x 40" - ©1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Interior with Lillies" (detail)	Oil & Board 60" x 48" - ©1995-2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Lilly and Landscape"	Oil & Board 21" x 11" - ©2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

"North Denver"	Oil & Board 9" x 16" - ©2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

one Planet"	Oil & Board 24" x 36" - ©2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

onion and Sea"	Oil & Board 11" x 21" - ©2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Oranges and Sunset"	Oil & Board 11" x 21" - ©2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Peeled Orange"	Oil & Board 24" x 30" - ©1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Walking Shadow"	Oil & Board 48" x 60" - ©2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

"White Rose and Sunset"	Oil & Board 21" x 11" - ©2002

 

 

 

 

 

"You Create Your Own Reality"	Oil & Board 24" x 30" - ©2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Barry & Jacqui's"	Oil & Board 30" x 24" - ©2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Hatchet and Apples"	Oil & Board 16" x 12" - ©2001

 

 

 

 

 

"Coleus"	Oil 24" x 20" - ©2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Vapor and Dusk"	Oil & Board 30" x 36" - ©1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Turqouise"	Oil & Board 38" x 48" - ©2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Studio Interior"	Oil & Board 38" x 48" - ©2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Love Slaves"	Oil & Board 48" x 66" - ©1993 - 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Lillies with Peeled Fruit"	Oil & Board 38" x 42" - ©2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Blue Still Life"	Oil & Board 30" x 32" - ©1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Interior with Mirror"	Oil & Board 24" x 32" - ©2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Figure with Palm"	Oil & Board 30" x 32" - ©1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Self Portrait"	Oil & Board 24" x 18" - ©2002

 

 

 

Sprick paints with intensity and even joy. He keeps an eye out for signs of transcendence in the everyday, yet he has a completely contemporary sense of irony that is illustrated by the following parallel. The Master of Flémalle and Roger van der Weyden furnished their imaginary (but convincingly painted) interiors with the same props again and again. A certain kind of bulbous, blue-figured import! ceramic made a regular appearance in both artists’ works, usually as a flower pot for the Virgin’s symbolic lily. Daniel Sprick updates this familiar motif with prosaic but no less beautifully decorated milk cartons. In Dusk and Vapor, one milk carton label reads, “Vapor Calcium Fortified,” while another proclaims, “The Dusk Fat Free Milk, “ Daniel Sprick enjoys these near-surreal enigmas and plants them frequently for viewers to find , a kind of hide-the-thimble game folded into his beautifully realized works. In Calcium, another carton is embellished with the androgynous creamer of Edvard Munch and stuffed with partly disarticulated human bones. Despite its macabre overtones, Calcium could well illustrate Walt Whitman:

 

 

 

 

Cion - Pavane