APONOVICH 52: WEEK 35 / A Small Basket of Strawberries

Sunday, November 27, 2011

WEEK 35 / A Small Basket of Strawberries

A Small Basket of Strawberries

James Aponovich

oil on canvas, 8" x 10", 2011

It is now holiday season and time is getting tight. For me, this is as simple as it gets, a basket of strawberries composed within a triangle, smack in the middle with a horizontal line of Italian pine trees and the distant buildings.

Compositional Study: A Small Basket of Strawberries

Or so it seems. Actually the still life is slightly shifted to the left, the vertical axis resting on the Golden Section. In other words, it's dynamically askew.

1 comment:

MarkDecember 1, 2011 at 10:03 AM
It has been nice to see reproductions of your work and your comments Jim. - Mark
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JAMES APONOVICH

Artists, by the nature of their work, are solitary. Our most important hours are invisible to the public, days of quiet work, both exultant and tortured. We are judged not by our effort but by the end product...the art.

But most art is not entirely successful; it only points the way for improving on the next attempt. A painting is only finished when there is nothing else one can do to make it any better. True success is simply starting again, striving for something ineffable, unrealized and unimagined.