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Several dialogues are the central theme to all of my work: the dialogue between man and nature, the dialogue between representation and abstraction and the dialogue between the artist and the painting.

This is a series of landscapes with no evidence of man in the landscape, but rather, man is the viewer. Man exists as part of nature, but man also strives to control and shape it to his own desires. These paintings are meant to represent an unspecific location and time at which nature is at an untouched state.

This body of work is also an investigation of paint on surface; therefore the marks made by the artist are essential to the work. The subject of landscape provides an opportunity to study the illusion of three-dimensionality on a flat surface and is a subject that is readily available. The work also explores a connection between abstraction and realism. The viewer comes to abstraction in this work through the painted illusion of an unspecific, generalized landscape, that maintains an expressive, painterly style.


	www.darrencrull.com \| home Biography \| Contact \| Gallery \| Figure Drawings \| "The Constricted Landscape" Several dialogues are the central theme to all of my work: the dialogue between man and nature, the dialogue between representation and abstraction and the dialogue between the artist and the painting. This is a series of landscapes with no evidence of man in the landscape, but rather, man is the viewer. Man exists as part of nature, but man also strives to control and shape it to his own desires. These paintings are meant to represent an unspecific location and time at which nature is at an untouched state. This body of work is also an investigation of paint on surface; therefore the marks made by the artist are essential to the work. The subject of landscape provides an opportunity to study the illusion of three-dimensionality on a flat surface and is a subject that is readily available. The work also explores a connection between abstraction and realism. The viewer comes to abstraction in this work through the painted illusion of an unspecific, generalized landscape, that maintains an expressive, painterly style.