ARTE KITSCH

Boris Gorelik, Incredible Tretchikoff: Life of an Artist and Adventurer. London: Art / Books; Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2013. ISBN 0624056775, 9780624056775

For two decades he was the most famous painter in the world. Millions of people in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa flocked to see and buy his exotic pictures. Celebrities queued up to be painted by him and to buy his works. Paintings such as Chinese Girl the Green Lady quickly became iconic images, reproduced countless times and appearing everywhere from suburban living rooms to blockbuster films. Vladimir Tretchikoff was the first popstar artist. He lived a life as colourful as his instantly recognizable paintings. Born to a deeply religious Siberian family, he fought poverty, tragedy, captivity and near death to become one of the most celebrated artists of his time. Loathed by the critics yet loved by the public, he defied misfortune and a dismissive art establishment to enjoy phenomenal success across the English-speaking world.

Indago sobre las bases gestalticas de la pintura metamórfica, como una aplicación de la teoría de la apercepción incluidos varios experimentos para comprobar la teoría de la forma y su aplicación en el arte pictórico de Octavio Ocampo y Víctor Molev.