However, Albala, who teaches at two private realist art schools in the Seattle area, has focused on transforming iconic sites of colossal destruction into beautiful evocations of sunlight, color, wind and air. With the advance of photojournalism, the recording tasks of painters, as in World War I and II, became increasingly irrelevant and superfluous. This ingenious juxtaposition of these two sheds light on how representational artists can respond to our troubled world - or blissfully ignore and escape from it. Another way of putting it: McCormick channels California impressionism in all its glory Albala has become a contemporary artist. One continues to plunge into a bucolic, completely cut-off landscape fantasy world the other is also obsessed with the past, but has grafted on the horrors of war. Two widely admired academic realists, Mitchell Albala and John McCormick, show a selection of new work alongside one another. Mitchell Albala, "Apparition," 2013, oil on canvas, 22 x 28"
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