Robert Bateman: Canada’s celebrated wildlife realist painter
His detailed wildlife art resembles photographs. His gallery in Victoria connects people with nature through art and convey the idea of caring for the environment.
Robert Bateman. He is a well-known Canadian realist artist. His theme is the nature and animals of Canada. He is a traveling artist who has traveled extensively around the world and painted from life. A distinctive feature of Bateman’s work is that his paintings resemble photographs.
Beattie is an eco-activist. He donates many of his paintings and reproductions to charitable foundations that support environmental initiatives. He created a gallery in Victoria to connect people with nature through art and convey the idea of caring for the environment.
Beattie is not a “tortured artist.” As far as I know, he is a well-adjusted creative personality without any significant emotional trauma. In fact, he is a realist. Although during his creative wanderings, he tried his hand at cubism. A noteworthy point: the public needs scandals; it demands artists with dramatic destinies, as if scandals, secrets, and mental illness determine talent. But with Bateman (again, as far as I know), there is nothing to grasp onto in terms of a dark past. Therefore, the public simply invented his dark past. In 2014, the book “The Lost Pre-Raphaelite: The Secret Life and Love of Robert Beytman” was published. Its author really wanted to see something that did not exist, so she took information on the internet about a completely different artist as information about Robert Beytman. The artist took his fictional youth with humor and even met with the writer.
I liked his phrase about contemporary artists, which also applies to this writer: “I love young people, but I don’t want to know their names. It’s superficial and uninteresting.” “Superficial” is a very accurate description of the new generation (to which I also belong).
In real life, he has one wife, no emotional turmoil, and two fully functioning ears.
Boring? Actually, it’s called “normal”!