PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) Philadelphia artist-activist Diane Burko works at the intersection of art and the environment. She calls herself an artist with a conscience, and while she’s not trying to reinvent landscape painting, she is hoping to make you appreciate the glories of nature she portrays in a new, urgent light.
“I feel a responsibility to the landscape, to our environment, so that I’m trying to imbue what I make to have more than just a beauty angle, more than just attracting you to look at these big large paintings about color or whatever,” Burko explained after a lecture recently at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. “I want you to get some information, so that I’m integrating information into these images.”