Art:21 | Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins received attention early on for her renditions of natural scenes?often copied from photographs that lack a point of reference, horizon, or discernable depth of field. Armed with a nuanced palette of blacks and grays, Celmins renders these limitless space?seascapes, night skies, and the barren desert floor?with an uncanny accuracy, working for months on a single image.

Vija Celmins is featured in the Season 2 episode "Time" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".

Learn more about Vija Celmins: http://www.art21.org/artists/vija-celmins

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[channyboi1191]

yeah so are they... so theyre related

[mihmarmi]

latvian

[mihmarmi]

latvian

[channyboi1191]

i think her cousins live 2 doors down. their last names are celmins. is she german or latvian???