An original acrylic painting on stretched canvas
15 X 19", framed - ( 12 X 16" canvas )
$850.00, including frame, ( plus $35.00, pack and ship )
( Click on image to enlarge )
This painting, done in a fairly post-impressionist manner, still defies any photographer
to capture a completely accurate feel for its primary, visual characteristic. That is the
result of the fact that it was entirely, under-painted in metallic gold, so that the luminous
qualities of the overlying colors appear to change, as the painting is viewed from different
angles and distances.
I haven't used metallic paints or foils a great deal, in my art work, because they often
tend to compromise the illusion of depth in paintings. But they work fairly well in the
style of the post-impressionists, who favored bold shapes, lines and colors, and the
flattened depth-of-field, of the Japanese, wood-block prints, which they so admired.
Metallic elements can also be useful in work which is deliberately primitive in design,
having no genuine perspective or sense of scale, and instead, using flattened patterns,
shapes and traditional themes, to create a feel for the history of an area. I once did a
series of such paintings, designed to give a feeling of the art and history of the Eastern
Mediterranean countries, and which I printed as a Christmas card collection.
I have posted several of those paintings in this blog in the past ( such as Silent Night
and Glad Tidings Of Great Joy ), but again, the metallic elements do not show up well
in the photos.
The burnished-gold, molding I selected for the frame, carries out the rich theme of
the painting without being overly elaborate. This photo of the painting in the frame,
may give viewers a better idea of the visual effect of this gilded presentation of pears.
