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Tyler Alpern, Gallery 5 | ||
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City Smells | ||||
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Circus | ||||
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Misty Blue Bells | ||||||
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Pardon Me Miss Garland... (note the Battleship is named Kathleen) | ||
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No People Like Show People | ||||||||
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Red Fish Tenderly | ||||||||
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Pan | ||
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Portrait in Red | ||||||
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Like Gertrude and Alice | ||
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Dream Canyon | ||||||
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Cocktails | ||||||
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Goodbye Daphne | ||||
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'American Landscape Photography' A comment on our culture's obession with self. America intially proudly differentiated itself from Europe by embracing the vast landscape. Now we ignore it, preoccupied with selfish interests, even though the land and climate are screaming out at us. Flesh and artiface are worshiped as the new landscape. The consequences of that may be dire. A theme 15 years ahead of its time. The tornado is a symbol of the dangers of ignoring the environment, the couple is engaging in narcissistic pursuits. Some paintings take forever to finish, this painting I began in 1990 and reworked many times, most recently in 2007. It has been almost entirely repainted. The trick is to keep to the same vision and style I originally intended yet with some improvements, otherwise the whole painting would have to be reinvented. | ||
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Fragile as a House of Cards Another painting of the Maroon Bells at Aspen where I grew up. The magnificent massive mountians seem so permanent and their beauty awesome and sublime. Yet they was spoiled with the stroke of a pen in remote urban office, and other pristine Colorado peaks were leveled by short sighted state governers. The landscape is painted on a collage of cards that collapse from stable rows as the image moves down. Not on ly a comment on the fragility of the natural environment, but also on our ability to recognize the value of and preserve the unspoiled beauty that surrounds us. In this sad case, the goverment has covered up this magnificent veiw with fake rocks and plastic outhouses that could have been placed nearby out ot the view plane instead of in the forground of this magnificent backdrop! What makes sense on paper in Washington, is an absurd travesty in application on the once glorious site. | ||||
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