An original acrylics painting, on gesso primed panel
16 X 13", unframed
$450.00, ( plus $25.00, pack and ship )
( click on image to enlarge )
I have included the word "revisited", for this blog entry, because of my previous
postings of my earlier versions of
The Raven. Late last December, when everyone
was giving thought to making some New Year's resolutions, I was urging us all to
think about reforming the sad state of our political representation. We are all too
aware of the fact that we have abandoned our American idealism, in favor of self-
interested bigotry and corporate greed. And for our political campaigns, we have
accepted personal attacks, crude insults and hate-speech, in place of thoughtful
presentations of important issues, and the consideration of intelligent solutions for
our pressing, national problems.
Of course, I am still hoping that we will regain our American idealism, and, like
the raven, proclaim that nevermore will we accept boastful ineptitude, dishonesty
and hate-mongering, in our candidates for public office. So, those urgent hopes still
apply to our upcoming elections.
But, as for the previous painting, since those postings, having looked at it a little
bit longer, I thought it seemed to be more of a tame illustration, rather than a painting
which stood on its own, independent from the famous poem by Poe. And now,
in this version of the painting, I think perhaps it contains more of the drama of the
ghostly, midnight apparition, as seen by the fire-light and candle-light, in the mournful,
narrator's library.
There will be some critics who will say that this version is still just illustration, but
if so, why should illustration be considered a lesser category of art?
