Four paintings: Top, Untitled For Now, oil & enamel on board, 36"x48", 1991.
Next, Level Playing Pond, oil on canvas, 1996.
Orange Flag, acrylic on paper envelope, 2003.
Bottom, Strict Constructionist, oil on paper, 22"x30", 1991.
A little variety today, a large piece in oil and enamel on board to a small painting in acrylic paint on a 9" by 12" envelope. A square piece in oil on canvas and a rectangular piece on (Stonehedge) paper in oil. When I painted the stamps in oil, I covered both sides of the paper with gesso. Oil paint will eat away at the paper fibers unless it is sealed with gesso or an acrylic paint.
Long before mass communication (films, radio, TV and the Internet), paintings spoke to people about things they could not read about. Books and movable type were hundreds of years away from being invented, so the painter was commissioned to spread the word by painting pictures. Today we have so much information we don't know what to believe or read or listen to first. Painting has moved in many directions over the last 700 to 800 years, but I still enjoy a painting that tells a story or has a message to deliver. Saturday is for Art, visit an art museum.
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Nice collection and I like the diverse mediums. I agree with your comments on the original applications of art, but I think that’s still the case. Even coming from the world of television and film production, I admit there’s something that form of communication can’t do. It’s can’t get personal. The message can’t go home with the patron and be hung on his wall for all to see. It can’t represent and identify him in that precious way your paintings can. As artist- what we produce will survive for generation to come - after celluloid originals have long disappeared. Your paintings are a personal legacy of our time.
Vikki
Vikki,
I love all your comments. I think of myself as an American artist, greatly under exposed, waiting to be discovered. Hold on, I think that is the Smithsonian on the phone. :)
Have you seen my new blog, F.D. Zigler's Art Gallery?
(ziglersartgallery.blogspot.com)
I am trying to sell a few prints and a few boxes of note cards.
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