Donald Sultan.

[28] p. Einband leicht berieben. - Sultans subject matter falls within two categories: the still life, which he describes as "the best vehicle for advancing art", is generally characterised by a bright-coloured shape contrasting to the intense black background rendered by the material he uses; the landscape, generally dark coloured, named "events" or "disaster" paintings, usually inspired by catastrophic industrial events such as fires, pollution, train or plane crashes ... aimed at describing "a situation where suddenly you couldn't breathe. " In line with the nineteenth century tradition, Donald Sultan's images are based on photographs. The still life is usually set up first, photographed and used as a study. The landscape paintings generally derive from newspaper photographs as he likes the "grayed outline". His work, however, cannot be reduced to the mere transfer from photograph to canvas. In his own words, the light is used "to thwart the photographic sense", only keeping "the perception as a reference", thus creating new volumes and spaces.