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8.00" x 6.50"
May as Well try to Catch the Wind, Motif #1 Canvas Print
by Melissa Abbott
Product Details
May as Well try to Catch the Wind, Motif #1 canvas print by Melissa Abbott. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap). Your canvas print will be delivered to you "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
Then in the Rockport of the 1960's there was a derision of those who painted the Motif #1 because it was too commercial and not creative. There were... more
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Artist's Description
Then in the Rockport of the 1960's there was a derision of those who painted the Motif #1 because it was too commercial and not creative. There were many pop up galleries of that era who sold a more psychedelic version of the Motif with glowing sunrises and contrasting darks and reds. I often think of these exhibits of the Motif which almost had a Warhol Campbell's soup can look to them. When I compare those to the 1930's Thieme and Hibbard portraits of the Red House, you have to smile. All the interpretations are of the Motif and the theme of the Motif lives in them all, yet, in spite of the huge differences in style, the essential signature of the " Motif" exists in them all as a conglomeration of all the elemental power of the location.
I have to say that as time goes by and the longer I live, I like the essential nature of the Motif more and more. It's a constant. I never thought I would ever paint of picture of Motif #1 but yet, it has happened. I tried to draw from the o...
About Melissa Abbott
Melissa Abbott is an artist and yoga teacher from Gloucester, MA. She studied painting at Monserrat College of Art.
$47.04
Melissa Abbott
Thank you so much! One of my favorites ❤️
Jeff Brassard
Congrats for the sale!