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Biography: F. Scott Hess Born: , Baltimore, MD Education: Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria BSA, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
F. Scott Hess
American painter
F. Scott Hess (born July 12, 1955) is an American painter and conceptual artist. He has described himself as a "reluctant realist" whose work is nevertheless grounded in Old Master craft and the representation of observed detail.[1][2] Art critic Donald Kuspit suggests, "Hess uses profane realism to represent the sacred moments of life, for he knows we live in a profane world with little or no sense of the sacred, let alone of the sacredness of art".[2]
Early life and education
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Scott Hess was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1955, but grew up in Florida and Wisconsin.[3] When Hess' parents divorced he was seven years old, and he reacted by making drawings of bound nude women, with Hess not realizing until much later that he was magically binding 'the woman,' his mother, so that she would not leave as his father had.[3][4] Hess focused on printmaking and drawing at the University of