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Page 3 - Marianne Van Lent / January |
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water or land. It hardly matters though because the real thing is simply the color mixtures divided by the dramatic horizon line that includes the round reddish form. Read this painting as a landscape or an abstract; but regardless, it is the color relationships in this reductive format that make this painting. |
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Contrast and surface are cast as important supporting roles throughout this work. Contrast provides the drama and a much needed counterbalance to all the beautiful color. The result is a bittersweet and deeply felt melancholy loneliness. Take the thought just a bit further and the artist has captured a very important underlying concept regarding the relationship between humans and nature; the sense of aloofness and separation. Van Lent�s surfaces only add to this notion where her use of the fresco secco technique give these pieces the appearance of ancient fresco fragments detached and set adrift from their original context. This is no easy medium to work in and it is to the artist�s credit that the materials are handled so well. |
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Strand With Pond, fresco secco and suspended pigment on canvas, 36 x 36 in |
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