Artist #2

Artist: David Levinthal
Title: Baseball (Mickey Mantle)
Date: 2003

All of David Levinthal’s work seems real, from a distance. If you take another look, however, you can see they they are entirely constructed of miniature figurines with staged backgrounds. This Image seems to be of a baseball game with the sand at his feet at the entire field around him. This would seem as if it was really happening. The image has great drama to it. with the dark deep shadows and the unfocused image in the back. The only focused part of the image is the uniform not even his face. He seems to be creating a false history of events that never actually occurred. In doing so, Levinthal is playing with the mind. Viewers are being tricked, just so slightly, then once the image is recognized it raises questions. It seems as if he is trying to see if he can fool the viewers or not.