AP Big Eyes Abstract Painting

Copy of an abstract painting in a modern contemporary style showing green zoomographic shapes.

American Contemporary surrealist oil on canvas painting that features a black, white and grey representation of a landscape (MARIO GRIMALDI)

Carol John's art reflects her encounters with mainstream modern artists-showing the obvious influence of Guston and other individualists like Marsden Hartley and Alfred Julio Jensen-it also suggests an appreciation of certain 'outsider' artists, as with her improvisational approach to composition. Like quilters of Gee Bend, John often begins a work with little idea of where it will take her pictorially. She might find a composition’s repeating pattern needs to be squeezed to fit within a pictures margins or detoured around a corner for completion as if the papers edge were merely a slight obstacle. In their unrestricted manner, the paintings have much more in common with childhood doodles, mindless of convention and heedless of expectations. that is not to say they are directionless. Guided by insight, they recall the paintings of visionary artists like Howard Finster or J.B Murray...

A mesmerizing celebration of color and form, this vintage boho oil painting invites the eye to explore its bold, layered vortexes in vivid sunset hues. Hand-painted with a hypnotic t...