| Lowell Tolstedt | ||
| Birth Date: 1939 |
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| Tolstedt is recognized nationally – an achievement considering he favors the mediums of graphite, color pencil, gold point and silver point. His images are uncluttered still lifes with a focus on the formal arrangement of compositional parts. “These drawings reflect the act of seeing an extreme refinement of vision, design, use of media and the power that one experiences through objects. However, for all of the emphasis on technique inherent in the work, the goal is to transcend the means and reveal a quiet orderly world in which contemplation and meditation prevail writes Sara Johnson of Southern Ohio Museum”.
Given the almost immediate association of realistic still life with old masters of the 17th or even mid 19th century the very characteristics that make a work of art realistic in style and still life in genre are often the same characteristics that keep a work entrenched in tradition. But still his work is modern – with the simple subject of placing fruit on foil – he accomplishes this with his realistic rendering.
What Tolstedt achieves with graphite, colored pencil and the unforgiving media of gold silverpoint defies belief.
Lowell Tolstedt is the former Dean of Fine Arts at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio.
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