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Mia LaBerge

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Mia LaBerge ARCHIVE DECADE II (2001-2010) click here.

Mia LaBerge ARCHIVE DECADE I (1990-2000) click here.

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Like a pendulum, Mia LaBerge’s painting style swings along a path from sharp realism to abstraction and even to non-objective artwork. Supportive prompting from galleries and collectors accelerated her work’s already-established 2003-6 trend toward the abstract. Especially since 2006, abstraction has been LaBerge’s new norm. Many of history’s favorite painters (Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Rodin among them) have been those artists capable of exact realism, but who also became more expressive at some point by switching to a more gestural style: letting brushstrokes or chiselmarks show, making the touch of the artist’s hand visible. The celebrated late-life work of these three great historical artists shows a trend away from exact realism and toward something more visceral. Perhaps Picasso was the most famous artist who could draw with the precision of a photograph but who chose, at an early age, to create ever-more abstracted art. Often the general public uses the term abstract for any contemporary or Modern-looking art –even art with no recognizable subject matter (just colors and shapes perhaps). To be pedantic, abstract should apply only to art where the subject matter was rooted in the observable world but the depiction has been simplified or pared down to its essence. Art that never had the objective of depicting recognizable real-world subject matter (art meant from the beginning to have only colors and shapes) should more accurately be called non-objective.

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Mia LaBerge NEWEST ARTWORK (offsite at LaBergeART.com) click here.

Mia LaBerge ARCHIVE DECADE II (2001-2010) click here.

Mia LaBerge ARCHIVE DECADE I (1990-2000) click here.

Mia LaBerge STEINWAY ART CASE PIANO click here.

Mia LaBerge STYLISTIC RANGE –SCROLL UP.

Mia LaBerge PRESS CLIPPINGS click here.

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