ABSTRACT IN THE COUNTRY’/acrylic-canvas/gunther
By Arthur H. Gunther III
There is no reason why art in abstraction cannot co-exist with the figurative, an old barn with a window of shape, form, color, line. As in a nation, if it chooses to be celebratory of all its people.
The writer is a retired newspaperman. ahgunther@yahoo.com
‘DRAWN SHADE ON ABSTRACT’/acrylic-canvas/gunther
February 24, 2020
By Arthur H. Gunther III
This is figurative painting meeting abstract, and isn’t that what life is as well — the real mixed with the unknown, that which is as yet undeciphered?
The writer is a retired newspaperman. ahgunther@yahoo.com
‘EDWARD HOPPER’S HIGH CHAIR, BATHED IN LIGHT’/acrylic-canvas/gunther
February 17, 2020
By Arthur H. Gunther III
Edward Hopper, the famed American realist painter, was born in the family home at Nyack on July 22, 1882, in a second-floor bedroom that is often bathed in the special luminescence which bounces off the Hudson River and straight up Second Avenue.
Young Hopper saw this light on his first day of life, and it surely and deeply influenced the artist, who proclaimed, “… what I wanted to do was paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Today, at 82 North Broadway, at the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, the artist’s high chair can be found sitting in natural and dramatic light in the upstairs hall.
The writer is a retired newspaperman. ahgunther@yahoo.com
‘HOPE’/on canvas/gunther
February 10, 2020
By Arthur H. Gunther III
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After the man left, the White House was dark, in black again as when the British set fire in 1812. But inside there was bright light, and the nation gradually returned to hope.
The writer is a retired newspaperman. ahgunther@yahoo.com