This is a work in progress and the last in my series of three on our American freedom and right to protest. This is titled "A Sharp Right Turn." Each of these paintings have a portion of one of the three statues that make up the Grant Memorial directly in front of the Capital. This particular painting depicts a team of horses pulling a cannon. The flag man is signaling an abrupt right turn to the team and the horses are in the midst of that turn.
I hope to have this finished within a week or two. Acrylic 16x20.
3 comments:
Michael--I really love this one. Of course your realism is perfect. But I especially like your figures, holding raised flags, which denote a united spirit of patriotism and immediately evoked the spirit of Delacroix's "Lady Liberty Leading the French Revolution"[ not as bloody, of course]--but still emotional.
Thank you for such a wonderful compliment. I do think this will be the best of the three. I am rather anxious to move onto something different now though.
gorgeous. I really like the colors in the statues...and that the statue leads us into the composition while the flags flying point us right back to it....great diagonal movement
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