Artworks by ben steele

Artisjok
Oil on Canvas
72 x 60 inches
work in progress

The history of art is layered. Modern art has particularly pushed and prodded the purpose of art, taking it from historical documentation to a vehicle for expressing emotion, idea and more. Taking a classical Dutch scene, Steele has layered the good, bad and interesting of the art world into an artichoke (And did you know the Dutch word for artichoke is Artisjok?) Interesting…