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"You Too I Welcome", 24" x 30", Oil on canvas, Sold
"You Too I Welcome" won the award of merit at the 2009 California State Fair
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"Orange Sky", 20" x 24", Oil on canvas, Sold
For some background info on this painting, please see my blog entry: http://hollyvanhart.blogspot.com/2008/10/orange-sky.html
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"Reflections - Red and Yellow", Oil on canvas, Diptych, 32" x 20"
"Reflections - Red and Yellow" Diptych
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"A Vast Similitude", 40" x 30", Oil on canvas
Description of "A Vast Similitude 1" excerpted from my blog (hollyvanhart.blogspot.com):
"A Vast Similitude" is the left painting of a two-piece painting (diptych). This painting was inspired by Walt Whitman's poem "On the Beach Alone at Night", which I absolutely love, and have quoted below.
Mr. George Rivera, Executive Director of the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, offers his time to artists once per month for a portfolio review (by appointment). I met with George last year, and he provided extremely valuable advice and insights. So I met with him again this year, just last week. Wow, I learn so much from George.
Among other things, I presented George with eleven images of my abstract landscapes, and asked for his input. Which were the strongest? Why? Which were the weakest and why?
He gave me detailed feedback, which was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you George!
When I paint a realistic painting, I'm pretty good at determining what's working well and what's not. But with abstract work it's different. I find it harder to judge.
I was very pleasantly surprised when George selected as his favorites "A Vast Similitude" and "A Vast Similitude 2". They were designed to hang together, but each one is also meant to stand on its own. These two paintings are some of my favorites as well, and are currently hanging on my dining room wall. They are also for sale, and could soon be hanging on your dining room wall!
"On the Beach Alone At Night" by Walt Whitman
On the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
A vast similitude interlocks all,
All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
All distances of place however wide,
All distances of time, all inanimate forms,
All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann'd,
And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
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"A Vast Similitude 2", 30" x 30", Oil on canvas
Description of "A Vast Similitude 2" excerpted from my blog (hollyvanhart.blogspot.com):
Mr. George Rivera, Executive Director of the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, offers his time to artists once per month for a portfolio review (by appointment). I met with George last year, and he provided extremely valuable advice and insights. So I met with him again this year, just last week. Wow, I learn so much from George.
Among other things, I presented George with eleven images of my abstract landscapes, and asked for his input. Which were the strongest? Why? Which were the weakest and why?
He gave me detailed feedback, which was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you George!
When I paint a realistic painting, I'm pretty good at determining what's working well and what's not. But with abstract work it's different. I find it harder to judge.
I was very pleasantly surprised when George selected as his favorites "A Vast Similitude" and "A Vast Similitude 2". They were designed to hang together, but each one is also meant to stand on its own. These two paintings are some of my favorites as well, and are currently hanging on my dining room wall. They are also for sale, and could soon be hanging on your dining room wall!
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"A Thought Of The Universes", Oil on canvas, 36" x 12"
Description of "A Thought of the Universes" excerpted from my blog (hollyvanhart.blogspot.com):
Like "A Vast Similitude", "A Thought of the Universes" was inspired by Walt Whitman's poem On the Beach Alone at Night. I had lots of fun playing with the yellows and reds on this piece. There's also some green to complement the red and make it pop out a bit (especially near the small red circle in the upper part of the painting). Enjoy!