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Chris Martin: Staring Into the Sun

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This is the first comprehensive publication on the work of Chris Martin , one of America's finest contemporary abstract painters. Martin's enormous, sunny canvases are enthusiastic in execution, heroic in scale while also expressing something of the rogue spirit of outsider art. Many of them are dedicated to such artists and musicians as Harry Smith, Frank Moore and James Brown, whose names are inscribed in coarse strokes upon the works. Martin's paintings are underlain with such everyday detritus as stuck-on coins, vinyl records, banana skins, newspaper articles and slices of bread. Despite such rough, utterly profane surfaces, it is a spiritual tradition of abstraction that Martin's work draws from: Native American folklore, religious mysticism, anthroposophist symbolism, the landscape painting of North American romanticism--and the great melting pot of New York City itself, where Martin has lived since 1975.

Language: English

Pages: 152

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag

Release: February 29, 2012

ISBN: 386335091X

ISBN 13: 9783863350918

Chris Martin: Staring Into the Sun

4/5 ( ratings)

This is the first comprehensive publication on the work of Chris Martin , one of America's finest contemporary abstract painters. Martin's enormous, sunny canvases are enthusiastic in execution, heroic in scale while also expressing something of the rogue spirit of outsider art. Many of them are dedicated to such artists and musicians as Harry Smith, Frank Moore and James Brown, whose names are inscribed in coarse strokes upon the works. Martin's paintings are underlain with such everyday detritus as stuck-on coins, vinyl records, banana skins, newspaper articles and slices of bread. Despite such rough, utterly profane surfaces, it is a spiritual tradition of abstraction that Martin's work draws from: Native American folklore, religious mysticism, anthroposophist symbolism, the landscape painting of North American romanticism--and the great melting pot of New York City itself, where Martin has lived since 1975.

Language: English

Pages: 152

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag

Release: February 29, 2012

ISBN: 386335091X

ISBN 13: 9783863350918

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