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Magic Mountain Painting
United States
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 72 W x 74 H x 0.1 D in
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About The Artwork
Abstract Landscape Painting, 72"x74", Acrylic on Canvas “Magic Mountain was originally titled “Tunnel Creek”. In the Winter of 2012, an article appeared in the Sunday New York Times about a group of world renowned skiers encountering an avalanche, while back country skiing in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. The 2012 Tunnel Creek Avalanche occurred on February 19, 2012, in Stevens Pass, a mountain pass through the Cascade Mountain. There were three fatalities. In December 2012, the New York Times published a multimedia feature piece called "Snow Fall”, critically acclaimed, winning the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, about the Tunnel Creek Avalanche For completely unknown reasons I became obsessed with the abstract idea of pure, powdered, dangerous snow and the power, majesty, and breathtaking beauty of inaccessible, remote, mountains. The story of Tunnel Creek filled my thoughts, reminding me of a novel read long ago, Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann, published in 1924. “Magic Mountain”, the painting, is charged with blues, sheer crystalline whites, violets, greens, hidden yellows, and stormy blue grays. The painting implies a sense of vertigo, the rushing feeling of free falling through snow, the stillness, quiet, and danger of Nature, and paint as paint.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:72 W x 74 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Painting is my passion. Landscape architecture is my profession. I paint large abstract canvases plein-air by the ocean in Rhode Island, and in the vineyards of Tuscany, Italy. My paintings are about nature, and the nature of painting and drawing. Through color, line, and the creation of form, I search for order and meaning. Thematically, my interests center on the landscape abstracted, and pure abstraction in painting. Aerial perspectives, shorthand figure markings, spectrum paints, accidents, and deliberate risk engage, disrupt, and enhance my Art. Over the last several years, I have completed extended stays at Artist's Residences, including Fruitlands Museum, Harvard MA; Tuscany; Nantucket; and Wyoming. These places greatly influence my work emotionally, and fill my canvases with the light, landscape, and culture observed in these dramatically different environments. As a traditionalist, love of family, world travel, classical literature and music, hiking, and gardening provide life’s greatest pleasures. Galleriy representation includes Saatchi Art, Singulart, Providence Art Club, Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, DeCordova Museum Corporate Lending Program, and Gallery Twist Richard's award winning art is exhibited locally and internationally, with works sold in the US, Italy, Germany, and Spain, with paintings and drawings collected in renowned public and private venues.
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