Peter Takal

"Queen Anne's Lace" 1966, Ink on Paper

1966

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) Title illegibly written. "La Bienne" "Jura" (?) - Illegible - "The Property" in "Jura" Switzerland. Rolling hills on background, trees, glade and pond(?...

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) Title illegibly written. "Jura"? - Illegible, possibly Jura mountains to the east in Switzerland. Rolling hills on background, trees, glade and pond(?) ...

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) "Pecheur Bord De Bienne, Jura" Fishing The Edge Of The Property, Jura, Switzerland. Rolling hills on background, trees, glade and pond(?) in foreground...

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) “Mexique, Les Paniers” : Mexico, The Baskets. Two women sit amongst a group of various sized baskets - selling? Ink on paper laid down on mat board. ...

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) “Pont Levis - Chenonceau” Draw Bridge at Chenonceau: a 16th-century castle built over the river “Le Cher,” approximately 100 miles south of Paris, Franc...

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) “Guy au portrait de madame Descazeaux” / Guy (Bardone) in the portrait of Madame Descazeaux. Ink on paper laid down on matt board. Unsigned. Image siz...

"Swim is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. The hand-drawn render is reminiscent and inspired by the word art that Ed Ruscha produ...

"My life as a painter began in the late 1950s when abstraction was “The only game in town”. I followed and progressed through gesture, organic and finally, geometric non-objective pa...

"My life as a painter began in the late 1950s when abstraction was “The only game in town”. I followed and progressed through gesture, organic and finally, geometric non-objective painting. The radical move for me was to discover that the real world of landscape lurked behind all that past work. My childhood in the mountains of Pennsylvania pervaded my “way of seeing” and I wanted to investigate and celebrate the infinite variety of tone, color and composition that I found around me. Sky, the structure of trees, mist and water appeared to fill a hunger to look again and again. There was mystery and danger lurking behind the beauty, and my aim was to try to avoid the cliché and explore the infinite structure of the visual landscape. Now I use my camera as a sketchbook and search for images that seem to offer odd structure and “mystery”. I shoot multiple points of view, cull, crop, and mostly discard. The surviving photographs become the catalyst for the paintings and the process is always a mediation between memory and the small image pinned to my easel...

"My life as a painter began in the late 1950s when abstraction was “The only game in town”. I followed and progressed through gesture, organic and finally, geometric non-objective painting. The radical move for me was to discover that the real world of landscape lurked behind all that past work. My childhood in the mountains of Pennsylvania pervaded my “way of seeing” and I wanted to investigate and celebrate the infinite variety of tone, color and composition that I found around me. Sky, the structure of trees, mist and water appeared to fill a hunger to look again and again. There was mystery and danger lurking behind the beauty, and my aim was to try to avoid the cliché and explore the infinite structure of the visual landscape. Now I use my camera as a sketchbook and search for images that seem to offer odd structure and “mystery”. I shoot multiple points of view, cull, crop, and mostly discard. The surviving photographs become the catalyst for the paintings and the process is always a mediation between memory and the small image pinned to my easel...

Acrylic paint and ink on tracing paper Hand-signed and dated lower right

Ink on tracing paper Hand-signed and dated lower left