Golden Flamingo Jewelry
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Oil, Board
Edward MarecakFertility Goddesses, Abstract Nude Figures 1950s Oil Painting, Pink, Blue, Green, 1950
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Oil
People Also Browsed
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Woodcut
1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Burlap, Oil
Edward MarecakWinter Witches in an Upside World Interfering with Each Other, Semi-Abstract Oil, 1990
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Charles Stewart, 1922-2011The Warrior and the Star Precedes the Sun (Hopi Ceremony, Oraibe, Arizona)
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Edward MarecakThe Four Winter Months, Semi-Abstract Figure Oil Painting, Red Black Orange Blue, 1985
1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Oil
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Edward MarecakSybils Telling Cosmic Jokes On Mankind, Framed Figurative Abstract Oil Painting, 1960s
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
Edward MarecakAdam and Eve, 1980s Abstract Figurative Painting, Vertical Oil Painting, 30 x 48, 1983
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
Edward MarecakThe Argument, 1960s Vintage Semi-Abstract Oil Painting in Reds, Pinks, and Black, 1968
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s American Modern Brooches
Crystal, Gold Plate, Yellow Gold
2010s American Modern Brooches
Crystal, Gold Plate, Yellow Gold
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Burlap, Oil
Edward MarecakThe Return Of Ulysses, 1960s Mid Century Modern Abstract Figural Cubist Painting, 1960
1980s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1960s Abstract Geometric Figurative Paintings
Burlap, Oil
1960s Abstract Interior Paintings
Burlap, Oil
Edward Marecak for sale on 1stDibs
Edward Marecak was an American painter who was born in 1919. Growing up in the farming community of Brunswick, Ohio, he showed early artistic promise, hired by the National Youth Administration to document historic barns. In 1946, Marecak came to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center for a year and after a semester interlude at Cranbrook returned to study lithography with Lawrence Barrett. There he also met his future wife and sometime collaborator, ceramicist Theresa Madonna Fortin. Given the opportunity to teach a summer course at the University of Colorado, he decided to obtain a teaching certificate at the University of Denver and subsequently embarked on his 25-year career in the Denver Public School system. Rather than pursue fame, Edward Marecak directed his zeal toward fostering younger generations in the principles of art as well as his simple philosophies. Moreover, his teaching salary allowed him to ply his prodigious talent at whatever he pleased, instead of bending to the dictates of trends and sales. Having inherited his faith in education from his Slovakian immigrant parents, Marecak could add the shaping of lives to his mastery of art forms, including lithographs, monoprints, drawings, hooked rugs, ceramics, paintings, wood sculptures, stained-glass windows and jewelry. While exhibiting in his lifetime, he was, in his wife’s words, “his own greatest collector”, but shows and his popularity at the Kirkland Museum have positioned Marecak posthumously among Colorado’s pre-eminent modernists. As a child, Marecak was enthralled by the Carpathian tales of magic and supernatural beings told by his grandmother. As with other artists with roots in Eastern Europe, his artistic turn to folk tradition would free him from learned practices of perspective and modeling in favor of flat patterns within patterns and brilliant, throbbing color. While others ventured further into abstraction, Marecak stylized figurative elements into crowded compositions that appeared like a mosaic or stained glass. As he matured, he could declare, “I am still very much a Byzantine designer and my joy with what color can do grows all the time”. The traceries of strong outlines and bold shapes provide compartments for vibrant colors, contrasts and rough textures that can scarcely be contained. The Kirkland Museum staged a retrospective of Edward and Donna Marecak in 2007.
Finding the Right paintings for You
Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract, landscape and still-life paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.
When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.
Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs. Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.
No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel. Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color?
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