Centerbrook, CT
Details
- Dimensions
- 48ʺW × 2.5ʺD × 72ʺH
- Styles
- Contemporary
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Art Subjects
- Architecture
- Period
- Early 21st Century
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Canvas
- Oil Paint
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Brown
- Condition Notes
- Condition consistent with age and use. Condition consistent with age and use. less
- Description
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August Bridge 2012. Oil on canvas, painting signed by artist Charlie Harper. Scene of a Railway bridge outside Chicago.
From … more August Bridge 2012. Oil on canvas, painting signed by artist Charlie Harper. Scene of a Railway bridge outside Chicago.
From the artist's website,
Artist Statement:
"I strive for my paintings to reside in an uneasy calm, halfway between a photograph and a memory.
Nominally, my work depicts what nature does to what man creates. By implication, as much as anything, my work bears witness to the cynical hollowing out of rural and small-town America by interests concerned solely with material wealth.
The imagery of iconic photographers such as Lange or Evans resonate with us in manner similar to the paintings of Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella or Franz Kline. All, however, reside in our collective aesthetic, what we think of when we think about visual language.
Manipulating paint with a window washer’s squeegee or impressing the pattern of paper towels into a painted surface to evoke the halftone screens and ben-day dots of classic photographic reproduction, my work plays upon familiar visual tropes that (one hopes) the viewer notes almost subconsciously. Concurrently, the thin, semi-transparent paint film allows quasi-random mark-making to appear almost photographic in detail.
My aspiration is that the limited palette, near monochromatic nature of much of my work is analagous to the stripped-down writing of Carver or Hemingway, attempting to create imagery that is pared to sinew and bone."
- Charlie Hunter less
Centerbrook, CT
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