Painting is done by artists to express their ideas about certain topics or their imagination. Different artists choose different mediums for self-expression. Robert R. Ecker is one the contemporary painters who mainly does paintings with various mediums. He does acrylic painting, printmaking, oil painting, mezzotints, mixed media and others. He presently lives in California, USA.
Robert R. Ecker has done a degree in Fine Arts from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has been making prints and paintings for the past 35 years or more. Earlier, he focused more on mezzotint but for the last 10 years he has shifted his focus to painting. He greatly admires the works of Joseph Cornell and H.C. Westermann. He feels that with visual and verbal symbols we incorporate meaning and significance on various objects of nature. According to Robert R. Ecker, human beings have the power of extraordinary imagination.
He thinks that imagination and power to think is what makes us unique and superior to other living beings. The paintings of Robert R. Ecker are the result of a closer observation of how imagination leads to an unavoidable voyage of exploration to some unknown world.
Robert R. Ecker has also participated in various solo and group exhibitions at different art museums, galleries and universities. He has won many awards like the Colorado Council for the Arts Recognition Award, Boulder Arts Commission Award and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and others. Some of the well-known works of Robert R. Ecker are An American Dream, Cause and Effect, Anxious Objects, Pictures of the Floating World, Desire, The Course of Empire, Dias Dorodas, Word and Object and Gulf among others . The works of Robert R. Ecker are kept in private collections at Denver Art Museum, Crocker Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art and others. There is an online gallery even where one can find the works of Robert R. Ecker.
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