Orson Byron Lowell Paintings

Michael Tole says of his work… This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol. In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century.  As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.    The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner.  Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen.  A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...

Charming painting of a Mediterranean town, two men untangle a fishnet while beach goers frolic on the shore, circa 1940. Original one-of-a-kind vintage work of art on paper displaye...

Mid-century French gouache painting of urban canal scene by artist Boeme, signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic...

Lone tree gouache painting with light green colors and aqua painted doors on grey paper by French artist RB, 1960. Signed and dated on lower right....

Oil on canvas Dondi Schwartz is an Israeli artist born in Canada in 1961 who lives and works in the Kibbutz Beeri, Negev, Israel. Schwartz studied art at the Avni School of Arts in...

French mid-century gouache painting on paper of industrial skyline with bridge in foreground. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic...

“Hold Firm” is a plein air painting by Judd Mercer, created on location in Laguna Beach, California, USA. The piece captures the coastal rock formations and breaking waves along the ...

“Flowers, Showers” is a plein air painting by Judd Mercer, created on location in Morrison, Colorado, USA. The piece depicts a lush woodland clearing with wildflowers, aspens, and fa...

Mixed media abstracted landscape composition on handmade paper of a town on the edge of a lake, in monochromatic orange tones with white accents, by Grace Eichholz (American, b. 1927...

This painting is a quietly luminous depiction of a snow-covered garden in winter, rendered in oil on canvas at H 23.6 in x W 28.7 in. Bare deciduous trees dominate the foreground and...

Oil paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist Stéphane Fauchille, dream anthropologist “Would you, for a moment, like to become the Claude Lévi-Strauss of the aborigin...

Medium : Watercolour, Charcoal and Gouache on Archival Watercolour paper 300Gsm. Artist : Fabien Granet Subject : Epuisement du motif (French Title) This original watercolor by Fabie...

To evoke the French Riviera and the light of the South, a sketch made by Andrée de Frémont on the French Riviera has become canvas. It is camping a h...

“Shoreline Shade” is a plein air painting by Judd Mercer, created on location in Long Beach, California, USA. The piece captures a sunlit shoreline with tree shadows cast across the ...

“To the Brim” is a plein air painting by Judd Mercer, created on location in Morrison, Colorado, USA. The piece captures the sunlit red rock formations and surrounding foothills of t...