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Social
Landscapes
Genre
Abstractions
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Title:
NYC Street Scene
Date: 2000
Size: 28"
X 34"
Medium: Oil on
Canvas
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Lasting memories and
stories haunt the atmosphere of black and white, slight blue wash, and hints
of pink in the painting NYC Street Scene. The composition is seen as though
the viewer is kneeling, looking up at the right side of a man whose face
is shadowed in the daylight. The man is sitting bent over a sign which is
hand scrawled in painted letters that have dripped down from one letter
to the next line's letter and reads HOME, then the sign bends and space
and letters are lost in the fold of space and paint. An S is read, with
the reader's mind supplying the visually missing LES. The letters PLEA appear
beneath HOME with the rest of the lettering SE and so forth hidden around
the bend. The next line reads THAN…The sin lettering is wobbly as is probably
the man behind the sign, his eyes hidden in darkness as his face slants
in a downward angle to the concrete of the sidewalk below. Towering city
buildings are seen as the landscape of the setting. Although crafted in
an illusion of the unobtrusive, the skyscrapers tell you to pay attention
by commanding the skyline and partially framing the man's face and posture.
- David Rasey
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