Classical portraits are usually full face or side view, perhaps with a little Rembrandt lighting if we look at a three fourth's view with shading. Typical still life's are flowers or fruits or game set in a stilted formal fashion. But I think we can think of them both differently. Each tells us something about the subject we are contemplating, each gives us information that helps us form an opinion and draws us in to want to know more. I think of them as time capsules, a bit of history and culture snatched in a moments time:stolen away for the future to time travel backwards. If quantum physics is correct and we experience time horizontally and not in a linear fashion, then we are in the future and past at the same time.
Here are a few portraits and still life's that tells us a story or give us information leaving work for our imaginations to do. In art I never like to over define anything for my viewers...art should leave a sense of mystery, an intriguing of the mind, and a tug at the soul. We should all be able to bring a sense of ourselves to the art work without the artist telling us his view to overtly. And so these pieces I have presented below offer a twist of classical formats for you perusal.
Portrait of My Nephew
Thanksgiving
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| Photo portrait by Elizabeth Gordon |
Shutters and Shadows/ Portrait of a Southern Lady
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| Charleston, South Carolina Elizabeth Gordon |
Still life Green screen and Red Barn Window
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| Old Leicester Road Leicester, North Carolina by Elizabeth Gordon |
Fall leaves with Crane
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| Asheville, North Carolina by Elizabeth Gordon |
Boo, Mountain Dog in Repose
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| Blossom Ridge, Leiscester, North Carolina Photo by Elizabeth A. Suggs |
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