‘Witty and inventive’ – Artists & Illustrators

In immaculately crafted art-historical reveries, George Deem wittily uses the styles of thirty-eight artists, including Vermeer, Rembrandt, Matisse, Modigliani, Sargent and Winslow Homer, to create Art School – paintings of imaginary classrooms.

In 'School of Balthus', sensuous adolescents sprawl languorously over Deem’s newly invented desks and chairs, while in 'School of Canaletto' Deem extends a classroom into the Piazza San Marco.

Art School affirms the richness and variety of the art of painting and opens our eyes to the art of seeing. The result is brilliant and very funny!

George Deem is a painter who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is in numerous public and private collections.

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