Art Stories: Chris Flodberg on Mountain Landscapes

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Art Stories: Chris Flodberg on Mountain Landscapes

Art Stories brings you artists and art experts sharing their thoughts on Canadian art and art history. This episode features Calgary based artist Chris Flodberg discussing his latest series of Rocky Mountain Landscapes. 

Chris Flodberg is a virtuoso oil painter, a painter's painter. He became known for his landscapes but has since tackled a startling range of themes. These are monumental paintings that grab the viewer by the throat and demand attention. Flodberg is inspired by art history, but the art he creates is his alone: visceral, intensely rendered, relentlessly probing, beautiful but often uncomfortable. An acutely self-aware painter, Flodberg places a high value on honesty. His art is a dazzling collection of self-portraits and statements on everything from war and greed to the blossoming trees on his street. -- by Monique Westra from the book Chris Flodberg: Paintings