A Higher Calling - An Original Painting By Artist Robert Kernodle
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ARTIST - Robert Kernodle - [email protected]
TITLE - A Higher Calling
YEAR - 2001
MATERIALS - (all archival materials) - art acrylics on stretched canvas, gallery wrap finished edges, 1 and 1/2 inch thick wood stretchers, protective varnish, secure wiring, ready to hang unframed, wall hardware included
DIMENSIONS - (height x width x depth)(inches) - 60 x 36 x 1 and 1/2"
WEIGHT - (pounds) - 10
MARKINGS - artist's signature on front, artist's catalogue number, year, and title on back
PRICE - (wholesale)(US dollars) - $ 1,800 - direct from artist - NOT for resale above 100% markup without contractual agreement - painting (c) 2001 Robert Kernodle - [additional cost for shipping]
DESCRIPTION - (from a series of FOUR) - Anatomy meshes with geometry in thought provoking, symbolic colorscapes - Human heads represent mental journeys, pondering, reflecting, questioning, dreaming within limits of consciousness - Moderately bold colors, clean hard-edged technique, tightly controlled abstract treatments reveal different angles of the body's most attention grabbing feature - Rich, dense paint application and size of actual artworks exceed visual appeal of their computer monitor images - Level, even, smooth gloss texture
HISTORY - Kernodle first referred to this set of four paintings as his "cosmic head pieces" - He began the series in year 2000 and worked on them at intervals over the next two years - Influenced by Burne Hogarth's anatomy books, Kernodle clearly credits Hogarth on each painting - He made a drawing for a fifth painting, but abandoned it, becuase he found the image disturbing and too different from the other four - Each title suggests a different color theme: orange/red, ... purple/pink, ... green, ... blue - Each piece required approximately sixty hours of focused, hands-on time to finish - Sometimes these hours spread out over several months, sometimes over more than a year - All these pieces are original, one of a kind, hand painted artworks - No copies
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