Museum
“Museum” 23in x 20in acrylic and oil on gessoed Masonite®
This is also an older work to be included in the Gifts of Art exhibition.
Taubman North 2D Gallery. UMHS is located at1500 E. Medical
Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Exhibit times: 8 am-8 pm.
See the Sunday, August 12 posting for more details.
This painting is actually a mixed media painting, first painted with acrylic on Masonite® then finished in oil. I wanted to be able to do the figures in oil because oil allowed more flexibility with transparency in the flesh tones. It’s sometimes said you can’t mix oil and acrylic, and that’s true, except you can always paint oil over acrylic but of course you can’t go the other way with acrylic over oil. So, in this painting, I used oil over acrylic for the two figures in the foreground and for some of the color in the Giorgio de Chirico painting on the museum wall.
I found the two museum guards a bit humorous in the way they were standing here in the doorway carrying on a conversation while facing different directions. This painting was a view in the modern museum of art in Vienna, Austria when I visited there for the first time on one of my sabbatical studies.
© Copyright by Paul Wolber
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Love this mixed media painting, "Museum." I has so much going for it---all the receding planes, leading to the glimpse of outdoors; wonderful textures, especially the mens' suits, and the polished floor; and a great deadpan expression on the man who is closer. I thought the juxtaposition of the two men was humorous when I first saw it, but didn't realize they were actually conversing. That's hilarious. And now that I know that's what was happening, I fancy I can see one making comments out of the side of his mouth and one leaning in slightly to hear.
Wish I could make it to Ann Arbour to see the exhibition but, since that's not possible, I'm very glad you are posting some of the pieces online. Joanne K. (Comment this)