This time around, probably influenced by the Katz portraits and scultpure I was surrounded by in the exhibit hall, I picked up a couple Will Barnett cards:
Silent Seasons - Summer
Silent Seasons - Winter
(Would have loved prints of the whole series, but they didn't carry any. Sometimes a girl has to make due with what she can get.)
There is something so engaging about Barnett's work, much like Andrew Stevovich's, and to a lesser degree, Katz's. It could be a reference to the heavy formality of ancient Egyptian figure painting. Could also be an aspiration on my part towards a sort of cool, expressionless, almost iconic self-control that his subjects seem to exude.
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I really like those cards. Reminds me of the blue dog paintings. Same dog, different settings.
Those images are incredibly calming to me.
I have a Stevovich image that's right in front of my face at work so that I can remember to be calm - it's of a woman asleep in the woods in autumn. There's a dog beside her gnawing on a bone and just sort of casually keeping an eye out. Usually, there's no other place on earth I'd rather be than that place.
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