Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Fred Danziger

Fred Danziger is a painter, art collector, and at times, instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.At first glance, his intricately detailed paintings look more like landscape photographs.They bring a photorealistic quality, intensified with brilliant tones and lifelike depth of color, to the forefront.Upon closer examination, you see the work of a master.Danziger paints with infinite detail, capturing color, light, and texture to express his love of peaceful moments — often streamside or surrounded by environments that speak to the beauty of Pennsylvania woodlands.He also draws inspiration from walks in the woods, working to depict three-dimensional form as accurately as possible and achieving near photorealism with broad landscapes and up-close depictions of the natural environment.A master of details, his paintings of leaves, water — even dew-dappled blades of grass — become almost abstract compositions that combine nuances of light, texture and color to give the sense of being present in the scene.“I don’t try to emulate photography in my paintings; I try to go way beyond what a camera sees,” Danziger shares.“A lot of it is just a feeling you get. You’re trying to express that sense of air and light and sunlight, just letting nature wash over you.”