EDWARD BURTYNSKY "ALBERTA OIL SANDS #10" 2007 acquire joan miro offering an intellectual satisfaction or

offering an intellectual satisfaction or ambiguity and paradox to her audience

During this period leading American abstract artists were staining their canvases or taping surfaces for hard-edge compositions

With his distinctive figurative intensity

this work features velvety shades of deep teal and midnight blue that are intensified with long

As the artists were tasked with commenting on the notion of Freedom

EDWARD BURTYNSKY "ALBERTA OIL SANDS #10" 2007 acquire joan miro offering an intellectual satisfaction orEdward Burtynsky is one of Canadas most internationally renowned photographers. For nearly a decade (1999 2008) Burtynsky focused on his "Oil" series which depicted the production and consequences of the global oil market in four countries: China, USA, Canada and Azerbaijan. He produced images of oil fields, refineries, automobiles, motorways, disposal and recycling areas, transportation, oil sands, and abandoned oil fields. This image of the Alberta