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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 48 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in
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During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and concurrent political dysfunction, I attempted to resolve my feelings by painting the Broken World series. Hart Crane (1899 – 1932, USA) wrote modernist poetry attempting to find a more optimistic view of contemporary urban culture than he discovered in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, an important influence upon his writing. "The Broken Tower" contains ten quatrains, number five of which forms the primary inspiration for the Broken World series of paintings. "And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice. Crane’s response to his broken world was love; mine too." As this series developed, the paintings often featured a central core with forces creating centrifugal movement, an aspect also suggested within the poem’s fifth quatrain. Later, I began using a dark circle that might intimate to the viewer several possible interpretations. More recently, I returned to my interest in fire as a force for destructive regeneration, i.e., a process of ordering, disordering, reordering; however, unlike my Fire Work, I now depict fire as an apparition rather than employing it as a painting medium. Hanging hardware included
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:48 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
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Instagram: @bethamesswartz My series explore different systems of knowledge, both ones well known and some more esoteric, translating their philosophical concepts into aesthetic visual experiences. Uniting my art is its conceptual inspiration rather than a consistent visual style. I frequently include words and symbols from many philosophic and religious systems thereby facilitating communication with viewers on both conscious and unconscious levels. My art and life changed when I moved from New York City to Arizona in 1959. The desert became my mentor after two rafting trips down the Colorado River in the early 70’s. Exposed to the dignity and continuity of nature’s abiding cycles, I felt the need to translate visually my reverence for the earth. These life-changing experiences morphed my early landscapes into a new aesthetic language. Often employing pilgrimage and ritual, I explored fire as an art form in an effort to go deeper into my practice and bring elemental energy into my painting. I mutilated and burnt large heavy scrolls of paper, incorporated fire, earth, paint and other materials until the paintings were transformed, recapitulating nature’s life cycle of ordering (birth), disordering (death), and reordering (rebirth). My art practice is a devotional activity, an intuitive journey and lifelong quest to transcend brokenness and create reconciliation, transformation, and beauty. I focus on art’s potential for unifying people, helping us recognize the commonality of human experience.
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