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abstract painting by Robert John Glass
oil on canvas
16x20 inches
July 2014
abstract painting by Robert John Glass
oil on canvas
16x20 inches
July 2014
abstract painting by Robert John Glass
oil on canvas
9x12 inches
July 2014
abstract painting by Robert John Glass
oil on canvas
9x12 inches
July 2014

Landscape: After a summer in Scotland, I noticed that all my photographs (and post cards) of large scale landscape looked the same (and were all beautiful). I took a small number of colors (two yellows, one red, two blues and burnt umbra) and arranged them with a pallet knife in zones from my abstracted view of "landscape" (resulting in 88). Next, in another canvas, I further abstracted by layering these same colors horizontally and then scraped it (resulting in 89). Finally, I spread the color that I had scraped from the previous on two smaller canvases (90 and 91), fully reorganizing and further mixing the scraped paint as it was spread.