Planting the Details
Gray Fields – Dan Beck 2008
On an overcast day in Salinas - a few weeks ago – was a lot of planting going on – through plastic covered rows of dirt – ready to become next year’s strawberries. Though I understood what I was seeing – this digital painting is more stylized than detailed.
The fields are gray – the day is gray – and yet it felt very peaceful.
It fits with the distance I was viewing and the pace I was driving – much faster than the pace of life today.
The plasticized fields are both ugly and beautiful all at the same time – the decision to paint it I think rests upon these clearly coexisting opposites.
See Also
- Impressionist Art Gallery – commentary on the inspiration and intent of this type of imagery and other earlier works
Tags: Art, digital painting, fields, painting
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