Don Wunderlee

Change Of Season

2018

Artist Commentary: An artist friend offered me her outdoor studio a half mile from the beach on Savin Ave. which was surrounded by rose bushes and visiting hummingbirds. It proved t...

Artist Commentary: "Autumn Love" Inspired by my Love of New England in Fall Keywords: Autumn Art, Artist Biography: Melissa lives in a world where everyday is a creative and magic...

Artist Commentary: I play jazz guitar every day and often get ideas that I try to put into my painting; how music moves from melody and harmony into impro...

Artist Commentary: I consider my work to be abstract but I often journey into making a painting that directly draws inspiration from landscape Words that describe this piece: natur...

M.Krylov (Russian), "Autumn Motive", Abstract Signed Oil on Canvas, 35 x 27, Late 20th Century, 1990 Colors: Blue, White, Orange, Red, Yellow, Purple, Pink

acrylic on birch panel

Vibrant abstract acrylic painting with primary tones of yellow, lime green and black with white accents, 1952. Signed and dated lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on...

Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vastness” and instill feelings of awe in his viewers, he says. Furthering his exploration of the abstract, Barkoff paints in his studio, rather than en plein air, fabricating landscapes from his visual and emotional memories. The Impressionist-turned-Expressionist painter is inspired by the atmospheric qualities of works by Claude Monet and J. M. W. Turner and cites Gerhard Richter as a more contemporary influence. He recently transitioned from using a paintbrush to using a squeegee and palette knives for his work, as the latter allow for greater spontaneity and manipulation of color. He says of his work: “Looking at a blank canvas can be both exciting and frightening at the same time. Most of the time exciting wins out and I plunge in. That is, I paint the landscape, which for me is what it’s all about. The landscape represents nature and contemplating nature is being in touch with God. You could cast me as a modern-day Luminist-Tonalist-Impressionist. Monet’s Water Lilies have been a big influence, along with the landscape painter Wolf Kahn.” “The landscape is what I see before me or from my mind’s eye. When I paint a mountain or a tree, I’m not trying to capture the mountain or tree literally (that’s what a photograph does). I’m trying to express my inner spirit in the painting – to transcend the physical to reach the spiritual.” “My most successful pictures are not those that are the most accurate in terms of nature, but are the ones where the state of my consciousness allowed me to translate my feelings – my deepest inner feelings – to the canvas. When I get into this altered state...