Original Painting Floral Flower Still Life Art Colorful Rose Van Gogh Monet Matisse deals Picasso Impressionist Expressionist 10" by Derek Boman
Hello and thank you for looking!
For sale here are two(2) stretched 10" x 10" "gallery" style canvases. They have a 1 1/2" painted edge. The paintings are sold together as a diptych and the two cannot exist without the other half. This duality is integral to much of my work. They both have wire hanging installed on the back and would be ready to hang right out of the shipping box.
Read on for a little more about the work:
I am very interested in the Dutch Master's still lifes and the meanings imbued upon the flowers. In the banality of a floral still life the modern eye barely stops to drink in the image. By removing the most important aspect of the content - the flower itself - I have tried to make it arresting and allow the eye to slake its thirst. It is similar to Basquiat's crossing out of words by which making them more important or more noticeable. The eye wants to find what is missing.
These paintings have taken ideas from Milton's Paradise Lost. It relates personally to me in that my grandmother is dealing with dementia/ Alzheimer's.
The following are the full titles and posts from my blog @http://readymade-fountain.blogspot.com/:
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(White painting)
Derek Boman. Paradise B(loss)om , 2015. 10" x 10". Acrylic, pencil, on canvas.
With loss of Eden
- first few lines of Milton's Paradise Lost
These passed, if any pass, the void profound
Of unessential night receives him next,
Wide-gaping, and with utter loss of being
Threatens him, plunged in that abortive gulf.
- from Book II
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(Dark painting)
Derek Boman. MILTON (Memory Loss), 2015. 10" x 10". Acrylic, gesso, and pencil on canvas.
deals So many grateful altars I would rear
Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone
Of luster from the brook, in memory,
Or monument to ages; and thereon
Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers:
In yonder nether world where shall I seek
His bright appearances, or foot-step trace?
- from Book XI