Art School Author:George Deem In a witty and sophisticated study of some of the greatest schools of art, George Deem uses his uncanny ability to mimic the painting style of any artist or period to create imaginary classrooms for Matisse, Caravaggio, Degas, de Chirico, and many other masters--with hilarious results. — In School of Balthus, sensuously distracted adolescents spr... more »awl languorously over classroom desks and chairs while characteristically in attendance in School of Hopper are several bleakly isolated figures. School of Canaletto ingeniously portrays a classroom that extends into a depiction of the Piazza San Marco; in School of Vermeer, robed Dutch matrons sit in quiet reflection at their desks.
In all, 38 famous painters--including Rembrandt, Velazquez, Modigliani, Sargent, and Winslow Homer--have their work recast in this highly imaginative and wonderfully irreverent revision of the forms and conventions of fine art. Through George Deem's extraordinary vision and clever imaginings, Art School will delight and inform with a comic, inventive approach that allows us a fresh look at the familiar.« less