"GRAVITAS: STUDY" by Brooks Anderson
Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
18.0 inch x 36.0 inch
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“Gravitas” is defined as gravity; a seriousness; the solemnity of life: at times dark and heavy, burdened and anxious. The Monterey cypress branch illustrates that ponderous weight—whether in the political climate, or in climate change. Yet, as in life, there is a juxtaposition. Surrounding this weightiness is a backdrop of an illuminated landscape exhibiting an immense, boundless clarity, and awe. Gravitas is also defined as resoluteness and enthrallment. A landscape painting, in this instance, may be a vantage point or focus for meditation and resolve. Viewers of this painting sometimes ask me, “What caused me to place a centered, hanging tree branch coming down from the top?” This is the beauty of a fresh, new view of things. I have all the elements of landscape in this composition; but it causes us to rethink, to see these typical ingredients in a new, spiritual light. This is what landscape painting should do. I will continue, though, to take down the visual notation which Nature gives me. If David Hockney, one of my heroes, could ask questions of the landscape, I will follow with my answers.
BROOKS ANDERSON
Santa Rosa, ca United States
The landscape has historically summoned the artist to transcribe its compelling mysteries. Simply put, my goal in painting is not to copy Nature, but to stand back, pause, and dive in, to reveal its depths, to feel Nature, to transcribe what I see (s... More
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Artwork Details
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support Type: Wood Panel
Artwork Height: 18.0 inch
Artwork Width: 36.0 inch
Depth: 1.5 inch
Weight: 2.0 lbs
Ready to Hang: Yes
Framed: No
Year Created: 2020
Signed: Yes
Signature Location: lower left
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