Don Eddy

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Don Eddy (born November 4, 1944) is an American painter who gained initial fame and notoriaty^{[citation needed]} as a photorealist artist; howeer, his recent works have veered far from strictures of photorealism, into the realm of metaphysics.^{[citation needed]} He is considered to be one of art's modern masters.^{[citation needed]}1 Don Eddy was born in Long Beach, California.

Eddy's earlier works of the 70's paid homage to car and the urban cityscape. In the 80"s his work were more object oriented, depicting glassware, silverware and toys on a reflective series of glass shelves. The artist's paintings of the past decade have delved into the mysteries of life through explorations of nature and the world around him. Often composed of ditychs or polyptychs (paintings with several panels), he juxtaposes images in poetic relationship to one another, "echoing ecosystems," as the artist calls these connections of structure. His recent paintings may characterized as ontological, the "Art of Being;" they are infused with a meditative atmosphere of calm and quiet. They are especially unique in that they tend to fuse characteristics of realism (representational images) that are easily and readily recognizable to the viewer with characteristics of abstraction: an an unspoken, inner spiritual expression.^{[citation needed]}

Footnotes 1. See Donald Kuspit, The End of Art (2004); Donald Kuspit, New Old Masters (2007); see also H.W. Janson, History of Art.}}