Friday, August 31, 2012

A Sunrise Visator



                                                  An original acrylic painting on stretched canvas
                                                  24x20" unframed
                                                  $2,000.00 - (plus $35.00, pack and ship)

     In the beginning decades of the last century, a Kansas City real estate developer
decided to create a unique shopping district, away from the central business district,
which later became known as America's first shopping center  He planned the
buildings and settings to have the character of a Spanish village, with decorative,
tiled walls, courtyards and towers.  And as a distinctive part of his plan, he
purchased numerous European artworks, sculptures and fountains, to install
throughout the district.
     Over the years, I have used a number of those fountains as subjects for drawing
and painting, including this painting of a masterfully carved, little, marble fountain,
shown here in the bright glow of sunrise.  The arrival of the little bluebird at the
fountain is a wistful idea, but an unlikely occurrence at that location, in a busy
commercial district, in the middle of a large metropolitan area.

                                                              (click on image to enlarge)



     This painting breaks one of the old rules of composition, which says that the
subject must never be placed directly in the center of the canvas.  But In this case,
I was more interested in trying to capture an accurate rendering of the sculpture,
than I was in using it only as a starting point from which to develop a painting of a
more expressive, personal viewpoint.  So, I treated it as an example of classical,
monumental sculpture and put it in the center, even though it is not actually
monumental in size.

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