UN nuclear agency meetings inspire American artist
Many artists draw inspiration in nature, but the latest works of American painter Lisa Ruyter have been impelled in an unlikely place: the meetings of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governor’s meetings.
Granted access to these gatherings as a journalist, Ms. Ruyter was able to observe the action and take photographs, which she used as a blueprint for her series entitled “Atoms for Peace.”
Using bright shades and cool tones, her technique is similar to fellow American artist Andy Warhol’s.
Currently, 17 paintings from the series – which has transformed seemingly normal images of IAEA Board of Governor’s meetings into extraordinary artwork – are on display at the Georg Kargl Fine Arts Gallery in Vienna, Austria.
“What at first appear simple but giant paint-by-number works slowly reveal themselves to be complex arrangements of flat colours with poignant, powerful subject matter,” the Gallery said in a press release.