interview, artist, artists, photorealism, Goings, painter, painters, oral history, Smithsonian, Archives of American Art, Terra Foundation for American Art
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Description:
Ralph Goings is celebrated for his highly-detailed photorealist paintings of diner interiors, countertop still lives, and antique pick-up trucks. In 2009 the Archives of American Art interviewed Goings for its oral history program. In this excerpt, he talks about a turning point in his career in 1963, when he began photographing subjects for his paintings. Through photographs he found a different way of seeing the world. This interview was funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Duration:
1088 SECS
Author:
smithsonianaaa@gmail.com (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Subtitle:
Goings talks about a turning point in his career in 1963, when he began photographing subjects for his paintings.