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Empire
State Building I, Finished Friday, March 30, 2012, 5" x 7"
x .125” x 2 oz., Oil
pastel melted on Plexiglas. Framed in a Neapolitan style simulated
gold leaf over clay over wood with no seam in corners weighing 2 pounds
The Empire State building
painted in its roughest manner. The nine colors play multi pivotal roles.
The colors move from representing the sky directly linking to the building
especially in the yellow. Nantucket red represents the people. Medium
green filling the pseudo shadows. Dark purple and green filling in the
bowels of the city.
Tom had just started
melting oil pastels on Plexiglas as a novel way to paint in a hotel room
without stinking up the joint. Painted using a limited palette of nine
colors. Each color a special value and hue to fill in all the gaps of
the color spectrum. Tom had twenty sheets of Plexiglas he was going to
scrimshaw while sailing across the North Atlantic but never had the time
on board ship. The milky Plexiglas looked like ivory. At first he used
a frying pan on a regular kitchen hot plate. Sometimes the pan would become
too hot and cause just the stink he was trying to avoid.
Painting with blobs
is reality. Composition and time of day establishes the painting. This
new manner cannot change the situation. The gross manner lends itself
to familiarity. The visceral manner guided by natural illustration makes
everyone there. Each stroke takes on more significance. Reality reduced
to something a printer would do but when the artist reduces the scene
to a few blobs that still have the scene then now that’s painting.
Each round edged blob means more. The blob represents the reality of painting
in the classical manner. Strike while the iron is hot. Why do anything
unless you are ready? The same is true with painting.
Finished Friday, March
29, 2012, 5" x 7" x .125” x 2 oz., Oil pastel on melted
on Plexiglas. Framed in a Neapolitan style simulated gold leaf over clay
over wood with no seam in corners weighing 2 pounds. The Plexiglas was
heated to melt the oil pastel causing the surface of the painting to bend.
You can see the bend in the Plexiglas. The Plexiglas is recessed away
from the frame. Can be shipped in a box 15" x 12" x 4"
weighing 3 pounds. Work can be purchase without the frame shipped in 15"
x 12" x 4" box weighing 2 pounds. Two framed 5” x 7”
pieces can be shipped in a 20” x 14” x 4” box weighing
five pounds. Use these weights and box dimensions to determine shipping
to your area. Painting can be picked up in Cincinnati for free or delivered
by the artist within a two hundred mile radius for a determined fee.
Provenance:
Shown at:
Clifton Cultural Art Center
3711 Clifton Ave; Cincinnati, OH, 45220
Opening 7 - 9 p.m. Friday, March 6, 2015; Closing Friday, April 3, 2015
http://tomlohre.com/CincyIcons.htm
Brief History of the
Artist/Scientist
Tom Lohre learned by working in the studio of master portrait painter
R_. Searching for new subjects, he painted the eruption of Mount Saint
Helen while it erupted from life, twenty miles to the south on Tum Tum
Mountain. He also painted the first space shuttle from life, 200 'feet
from it, under armed guard, the day before to took off.
All information believed
correct but cannot be guaranteed.
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Empire State Building II
New York New York Impressionism Oil Painting in Faux Gold Frame