The painting is done on silk with a very light brownish background. In the image we see a brown furred deer with a black stripe running down its back. The deer has its head bowed and behind it we see a crane. This crane is red headed and is standing completely upright besides the horse. The crane has various colors on its head such as a black neck coming from its white chest, and a light blue beak. Above both the horse and the crane we see a black bat flying in the opposite direction of the other two animals.In this painting it is obvious that nature is being used. While this specific artwork does not contain a ton of them, you can see the bold strokes outlining the spine of the horse to the tail.
The background is also well worked and the colors are beautiful. The horse, though, is not beautiful and has no particular appeal to it. He is as dull as a toy, as uncomplicated as a tree, as clean as a picture of a sea, and as graceful as a feather. The animal in the painting is barely there to give a hint of life, and his existence is one-dimensional. The image is too juvenile to be a painting of any kind.
____Karen Maenz is a former student of Bruce Conners. She has since been awarded a place in the Chicago chapter of the Art Students League. She studied with Larry Poons and his associates at the Art Institutes Chicago School and holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to painting, she is a painter-interim program director at the University Art Museum. Her works are displayed at the Art Students League and on the campuses of the Art Institute of Chicago.Her recent work was the biggest at the Chicago Art Institute. The biggest show she has had to date at this museum was her painting entitled How to Lose Your Career and How to Break Free from the School. Her two-part work is an abstract picture which involves a series of interconnected elements, each of which is a revelation of its memory. All the elements are in the same context, not necessarily in the same image, and they all overlap to reveal the same underlying concept. In this painting, the whole picture is made up of four panels that form the left and right sides of the painting. Each panel shows a kind of line through which one can see the outline of an arm. In the middle part of the painting, the arm is separated by the line from the head. As in other examples, in this painting, the work of art becomes like an umbrella for the mind. In fact, the painting is covered with a kind of gaudy noise, which one cannot hear because the sounds are so distorted. This noise sounds like a lot of fun on television, and it may be just that an artist like De Kooning can make a painting sound like a fun painting.
The painting is done on silk with a very light brownish background. In the image we see a brown furred deer with a black stripe running down its back. The deer has its head bowed and behind it we see a crane. This crane is red headed and is standing completely upright besides the horse. The crane has various colors on its head such as a black neck coming from its white chest, and a light blue beak. Above both the horse and the crane we see a black bat flying in the opposite direction of the other two animals.In this painting it is obvious that nature is being used. While this specific artwork does not contain a ton of them, you can see the bold strokes outlining the spine of the horse to the tail. This use of nature to illustrate the body of the human is most apparent in one of the watercolors in this exhibition. Here, a painting of a long chain of bright red, golden and white dots forming the shape of the handle of a black cane. The image depicts a fox-like creature, the canvas shows its grass covered with grass and the cane represents the point of the fingers, implying a straining and twisting motion. The painting is only seven by nine feet, but the sheer size and magnification of the work is impressive. These paintings are not simply abstractions but articulate the essence of nature. Perhaps it is because nature can be depicted, written or written. Nature can be represented and printed on a canvas. Nature can be divided into four colors. Nature can be the subject of an individual painting. Nature can be part of a series of paintings. One painting cannot be multiple. Another painting can be a group of pictures. An individual picture may be a work of nature; but an individual painting is different from the group. Nature can also be human-like, artificial or natural. This work was made by putting a lot of nature on paper. The dense, dense, almost indestructible nature in the present painting is described in this painting. This piece of art represents the essence of nature, and it is a key to understanding nature as an aspect of the human. The human is a creator, a creator-builder. Nature can be a creator, a creator-constructor. Nature is a synthesis of many forms. In this painting, nature has become a human composition.Nature has become a human composition. A depiction of the human as a world of matter, a medium of spiritual expression, the human body has become a model. It has become a symbol of creation, of an individual and collective human life. The world of nature is the human body. This is the essence of human life. Nature can be a picture of self-expression, of freedom.
He uses the same over-looked, saturated color in his other paintings in the show. The colors are different shades of gray which produce a very subtle painting quality which in some ways is reminiscent of the color of a human hair. The works in this show are also very delicate and dense in their structure. They are like a powerful cocoon.
The horse is depicted with a spike on its back, and a bolt-cutter has a bat at its breast. But, the best painting in the show is a work on paper titled Horse with Spider, by the artist Oleg Moholy-Nagy. The artwork depicts the same horse as Moholy-Nagy and shows a spider on the front of the horse. This spider is hanging on the handle of a whip. The spider is made of gray hairs and has a snake on its back. The horse seems to have a giant web in its back.
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