art4gays: ganymedesrocks:citehochelaga:Bo Bartlett, Lifeboat, 1998I truly enjoy watching
art4gays: ganymedesrocks: citehochelaga: Bo Bartlett, Lifeboat, 1998 I truly enjoy watching this picture. Bo Bartlett is an American realist painter, born in Georgia in 1955, who was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He currently works from both Columbus, Georgia and Wheaton Island, Maine. His art focus is on large-scale contemporary figurative painting with a modernist vision that seems to follow a constant progress. Andrew Wyeth himself said “Bo Bartlett is very American. He’s fresh, he’s gifted, and he’s what we need in this country. Bo is one of the very few I feel this strongly about.” Bo Bartlett paintings are well within the tradition of American realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth indeed. Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America’s heart—its land and its people—and describes the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary. He pushes the boundaries of the realist tradition with his multilayered imagery. Life, death, passage, memory, and confrontation coexist easily in his world. Although the scenes are set around his childhood home in Georgia, his island summer home in Maine, his home in Pennsylvania or the surroundings of his studio and residence in Washington state, they represent a deeper, mythical concept of the archetypal, universal home. (via TumbleOn) -- source link