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Ben Blatt’s intricate watercolor paintings focus on precious objects set in idealized nature-scapes rigorously rendered with twisting, virtuosic detail. In Blatt’s visionary world, objets de virtu and regal treasures are overgrown by layers of nature just as beautiful as the jewels they encroach upon. Employing the patient medium of watercolor, Blatt refocuses art-historical movements such as Rococo, SyMbolism, Wunderkammen, and Romanticism through a contemporary lens.