D e n m a n S t u d i o s Showcasing the Art of A n d r e w D e n m a n
Home Available from Denman Studios Available from These Fine Galleries Available at Special Events Limited Edition Reproductions from Greenwich Workshop Archive of Previous Work Solo Touring Show: The Modern Wild About the Artist Contact Purchasing Information News & Events Teaching & Workshops Videos Commission Policy Galleries Newsletter & Mailing List Facebook Linked In Links	<Back to Thumbnails "Modern Camouflage IV" 10 x 10" Acrylic on Cradled Board, 2015 Saw Whet Owl $2,200 SOLD How to buy This is the fourth offering in my “Modern Camouflage” series, a group of paintings exploring not simply my love of owls, but the art historical struggle between the treatment of the canvas in the Renaissance-inspired, “illusionistic” manner, as a space the viewer can imagine himself stepping into, or as a flat surface to be decorated. It may seem awkward that the illusionistically painted Saw Whet owl’s talons seem to be curving around a perch even though they are “gripping” a two-dimensional sweep of background pattern, but this tension is precisely the point. The “Modern Camouflage” Series is about the contrast between patterns in nature and man-made patterns, so this very tension is an entirely integral expression of the piece’s conceptual underpinnings. Far from an attempt to really “hide” the subject in the painting, these pieces are a celebration of the mimetic nature of abstraction, the simple fact that all inorganic patterns have, at their core, organic roots. And of course, it doesn’t hurt to make the point with a subject as painfully adorable as a Saw Whet Owl, a bird which, despite its comical appearance, is a skilled and fearsome predator.
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