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Amongst these later works is the impressive Portrait of My Father (1972–79), which was painted over the course of seven years. Here Kaltenbach overlays a faintly colorful arabesque on the soft features of his then-recently deceased father’s face.
Jan 30, 2020 · Portrait of My Father is taken from a snapshot of Kaltenbach’s dad in 1971, when a series of strokes left him bedridden. The muted, silvery face is painted in a photorealistic style, but is overlaid with flashes of light bouncing here and there—off the bridge of the paterfamilias’ nose, off the corner of his beard—like rays of sun ...
May 16, 2016 · In the late '60s, the artist Stephen Kaltenbach spent three manic, ... known in Sacramento for accessible works like Portrait of My Father, ...
Portrait of My Father (1972-1979) 10x15 feet Acrylic on canvas. © 2023 Stephen Kaltenbach
Feb 5, 2020 · Portrait of My Father (1972-79), believed by some to be among the most significant paintings of the 20th century, is an exercise in psychedelic photorealism. It shows, at close range, a dying man’s face overlaid with prismatically colored 10th-century Islamic patterns that conjure a luminescent vision of what limbo might look like.
His enormous tour-de-force painting Portrait of My Father, 1972–79—which directly targets the lay art-loving public (specifically, he says, his mother and anyone “who would never take mescaline”)—remains a crowd favorite at Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum, a work especially popular, he notes, with “kids and elderly people.”
Apr 3, 2020 · Renowned curator Lawrence Rinder, who is retiring after 11 years as director and chief curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, delves into how Conceptual artist Stephen Kaltenbach came to create “ one of the most powerfully authentic and spiritually moving artworks of our time.
