When learning about art you come across people that take their talent they were given and use it to its fullest. One artist I have found this to be true for is Vija Celmins. Vija immigrated to the United States with her family when she was ten from Latvia. Celmins was awarded international attention early in her career with her creation of natural scenes usually created from photographs. Vija in every work she created used many medias such as oil paint, charcoal, pencil drawing, printmaking and sculptures. Every one of her works included black, white and gray in place of colors taking this from photos that did not have any depth. Celmins is now internationally known for her works involving little color and rendering details of the natural environment. By the 1960 she started using only graphite pencils. This is where she started on her most popular creations of the surface of the ocean and the night sky. Clemins would sit at her easel all day just shading out the night sky. She even worked on a painting for a year making sure each gray mark was perfect. She could be considered to many as a perfectionist.
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