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Susan Hope Fogel
Breezy Morning (Classical Realist Oil Landscape of Louse Point, Hamptons, NY)

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"Breezy Morning" by Susan Hope Fogel Painted in Louse Point, Hamptons, NY oil on canvas panel 9 x 12 inches, 17.5 x 21.5 x 1 inches in gold leaf frame wire on reverse for easy installation signature in lower left Susan Hope Fogel explores a fascination with light in her approach to traditional, realist landscape painting. Among the star traits of "Breezy Morning" are the wispy, beach grasses in the foreground; a light impasto effect adds texture and is contrast to the fluffier shrub nestled just behind it. Dappled sunlight glistens off the ocean's surface, rich and luminous shadows play with a grey sky stretching over the horizon. This work is perfectly complimented with a gold leaf frame whose design parallels the tradition of the painting style itself. Susan Hope Fogel has remained steadfast in painting the light, i.e. following a timeless tradition that culminated in the mid-eighteen-hundreds under the banner of "The French Barbizon School." Briefly stated, it was a long-held belief that "real" painting was a matter of capturing the play of light on the forms and colors of natural phenomena. The more we learned and observed how light revealed the world we live in, the "realer" our art would be — "realism" or "realistic" or "representational" art, therefore, would be the mainstay — so manifestly demonstrated in Susan's exhibit of "realistic" motifs. After spending many years painting in the style of traditional realism , Susan had the opportunity to work with Paul Ching-Bor to explore a new form of expression in Deconstructionist Watercolor. Working in New York City with a group of large scale watercolorists, Susan soon found herself fascinated by the experimental quality of this new media. A great departure from the world of realism this media allowed for great freedom of expression creating from an intuitive place, deep within, instead of inspiration from the outside world. The focus of her work has now shifted to large scale watercolor painting with an emphasis on abstraction of landscape and cityscape. Susan has studied in art schools in New York City including: classical drawing at The New York Academy of Art, figure and portrait painting at The Art Students League and The National Academy of Design. She credits John Philip Osborne for developing her painter’s eyes at The Ridgewood Art Institute.
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