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David Martsolf
United States
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252 pieces
Artist highlights
- Experienced Artist
- Prizewinner
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 48x78in
About this artwork
The painting in this series stands alone. It is a response to the influential art critic Clement Greenberg, who in the 1950's argued that Abstract Expression was a victory for painting in that it made the flat surface of the artwork real, whereas all past art that created an illusionistic 3-dimensional space was false and not honest or pure in some way. I disagreed.
"Surface Tension" is my response to that critique. I have depicted a scene of… normal people (my friends, actually) at a summer BBQ who have lined up with hands held out as though in a mime to indicate an invisible flat surface. I have tried to create the paradox of celebrating Greenberg's dictum of the flat surface by using an illusionistic space.
This painting won the Sawyer Memorial Award for Painting in the 38th Annual New Hampshire Art Association Exhibition, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, in 1985.
"Surface Tension" is my response to that critique. I have depicted a scene of… normal people (my friends, actually) at a summer BBQ who have lined up with hands held out as though in a mime to indicate an invisible flat surface. I have tried to create the paradox of celebrating Greenberg's dictum of the flat surface by using an illusionistic space.
This painting won the Sawyer Memorial Award for Painting in the 38th Annual New Hampshire Art Association Exhibition, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, in 1985.
David Martsolf
United States
Credentials
- Experienced Artist
- Prizewinner
- Works on commission
« I am amazed by the world, the paradox of its mortality, and our sense of something eternal. I hope to communicate my response to this paradox through my work. »
David Martsolf is an award-winning American artist whose paintings have been featured in solo exhibitions nationally. He describes the universal themes of life and death "viewed through the eyes of amazement" as the main message in his works. In addition, Martsolf's interest in cosmology, as well as the concept of infinity, both physical and metaphysical, are also explored in his diverse compositions. He creates using oils on canvas.
