Nocturne Highland Park
- Title
- Nocturne Highland Park
- LC Subject
- Painting Cities and towns oil painting (technique) oil paintings (visual works) gold leaf
- Creator
- Thomas, James David
- Description
- This is an image of an oil painting on wood of what appears to be a night view of a city. The art piece is painted in very dark colors, utilizing gold leaf as lighting to emphasize the lit houses and streets. Nocturne, Highland park; oil/goldleaf/wood; 8 x 12 inches; 1988 email@jamesdavidthomas.com The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
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- full
- Location
- Department of State Lands >> Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Marion County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 775 Summer St. N.E., Salem Oregon
- Award Date
- 1989
- Identifier
- 1990_salem_state-lands-bldg_10_a01
- Item Locator
- THO: 90-19
- Accession Number
- 1990_salem_state-lands-bldg_10_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Thomas, James David
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 8 x 12 inches
- Material
- Painting oil on wood with gold leaf
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1990 State Lands Building Salem Oregon 1990_salem_state-lands-bldg
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- Nature has always provided the basis for the work, and the human relationships and cyclical rhythms found in nature is essentially what the paintings are about. The various manner in which we interact with our environment such as counting, or the dialogue between myth and logic with reference to landscape is my main interest. This fascination has developed over a lifetime of living in diverse geographic regions that commanded my interest and respect. In my opinion our physical world is much taken for granted in a time of intellectual and technological progress for the sake of progress. In the recent work my primary focus has been to expound on my process as a painter, utilizing the various forms of depiction available to me such as representation or a more formally oriented, direct approach. Through this exploration it is my intent to come to terms with the way I see. Being in a vast landscape such as the desert, details drop away. The mind retains only the essential shapes and colors, in short, the abstract "structure". Detail is suppressed reducing the format to the most barren of pictorial designs. It tends to illicit open-ended associations and readings. It becomes the art of suggestion and nuance more so that merely the representative. T see my work as a direct reflection of the great cycle of life in time, flux, and transition. It takes on a poetic tenor, one that is the basis and center of our existence. (Thomas, 1990)
