Jeremy Mann
April 12, 2014 4:24 PM   Subscribe

 
Amazing work. thanks h.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 4:40 PM on April 12, 2014


I love how he totally cops to his medium. Really good compositions. How he jams those car lights into his focal point. Actually everything -- he tightens up the rendering, too.
posted by Trochanter at 5:35 PM on April 12, 2014


I really like this one, but this one has a weird perspective. It looks as though he based it on a photo taken with a wide-angled lens shooting at about knee height, which makes the lines of the pedestrian crossing splay out. I don't think there's any way a human eye could see things that way.
posted by Joe in Australia at 5:49 PM on April 12, 2014


I don't think there's any way a human eye could see things that way.

That's the byoody of it.
posted by Trochanter at 6:09 PM on April 12, 2014 [2 favorites]


These are beautiful. They have that painterly feel to them that I love.
I want to see one up close, and smell the oils while still fresh.
posted by quazichimp at 7:06 PM on April 12, 2014


These are marvellous works. I love how atmospheric that rainy street is, you can almost smell the fumes.
posted by arcticseal at 7:23 PM on April 12, 2014


Like the city-scapes, not really sold on the figures.
posted by octothorpe at 7:55 PM on April 12, 2014


I like them. Puts me in mind of Childe Hassam.
posted by lagomorphius at 8:05 PM on April 12, 2014 [1 favorite]


It's really John Singer Sargenty.
posted by Trochanter at 8:12 PM on April 12, 2014 [3 favorites]


I dunno, I'm actually more into the figures. This may not be fair but the cityscapes remind me a lot of 60s-70s-80s commercial art (except for this one, which I like the most). The figures, though, are a little weird.
posted by furiousthought at 9:25 PM on April 12, 2014 [6 favorites]


It's not the same without Harrison Ford's voiceover.
posted by dhartung at 9:30 PM on April 12, 2014 [10 favorites]


Well, I'll be centrist and say I like both the figures and the cityscapes. One each, please.
posted by maxwelton at 11:30 PM on April 12, 2014


One each, please.

What's your credit rating like? His "Hell's Kitchen" and "Montgomery Night" ran for $19,500 apiece, last year.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:53 PM on April 12, 2014


Layaway it is!
posted by maxwelton at 12:09 AM on April 13, 2014 [2 favorites]


This may not be fair but the cityscapes remind me a lot of 60s-70s-80s commercial art...

That's completely fair. The cityscapes do, in fact, share a lot in common, stylistically, with a lot of illustration and "commercial" art from the 60's and 70's. Mann has turned it up to 11, though. These are really nice.
posted by Thorzdad at 4:36 AM on April 13, 2014


Like the city-scapes, not really sold on the figures.

I had the opposite reaction -- the cityscapes were pretty but didn't grab me; the figurative works made me stop and look.

What's your credit rating like? His "Hell's Kitchen" and "Montgomery Night" ran for $19,500 apiece, last year.

That's probably cheap for such good art, but definitely out of my price range, sadly.
posted by Dip Flash at 4:40 AM on April 13, 2014


It's not the same without Harrison Ford's voiceover.

Oh snap!

But you're right, really. The key strategy Mann uses in conveying a lot of his thoughts about cities and the city is this immense verticality, which as you note is not exactly particularly novel: it's been around for many many years, since Blade Runner (and you know, arguably even Fritz Lang's Metropolis, from 90 years ago). His colours are really great though which is why I think some commenters here are saying the cityscapes are pretty but uninteresting.

It'd be interesting to see new ways of depicting cities. Now that we're kinda past modernism and we're used to all these giant buildings so close together, maybe more could be made of just how vast cities are, and how unknown some parts of them are and forever will be, even to those who have lived in them their entire lives. Maybe more could be made of how insular an environment cities have become. Maybe more could be made of the effects of air and light pollution, and so forth.

Just some thoughts.
posted by Quilford at 8:25 AM on April 13, 2014


try listening to some cool jazz while gazing on some of the rain-slick city scenes. Powerful.
posted by telstar at 12:35 AM on April 18, 2014






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