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A demonstration of the Plinth theme for Omeka Classic: the museum and its collection are fictional, and the images were made with AI. About this site
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Rafael Ortiz-Bell

Rafael Ortiz-Bell in his studio, 2006. A color photograph of a Latino man in his forties in paint-spattered work clothes, standing with arms folded in a large white-walled studio in front of an enormous cadmium red canvas, looking at the painting. View larger
Rafael Ortiz-Bell in his studio, 2006

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Title
Rafael Ortiz-Bell
Description
Mexican-American painter. Ortiz-Bell makes large paintings of a single color, interrupted once, worked in oil and wax until the surface glows.
Date
born 1961
Rights
Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

In the collection

  • Signal

    Rafael Ortiz-Bell · 1992

    A field of cadmium red interrupted once, off center, by a pale vertical line. Ortiz-Bell painted the line last, in one breath, and would not say what it signals.

  • Ember

    Rafael Ortiz-Bell · 1995

    Layers of red and orange worked into hot wax until the surface glows from inside, like coals the morning after.