Birthday
Birthday
Birthday
Birthday

Frederic Tuten

Birthday, 202265.4 x 44.45cmSign in to view price
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oil on panelHarper's
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This vibrant and imaginative artwork showcases a whimsical landscape filled with striking colors and playful shapes. The composition features bold, geometric forms in shades of red, yellow, and blue, creating a sense of depth and dynamism. Prominent elements include fantastical cloud formations and a winding river that bisects the scene, with various figures and objects scattered throughout the frame. The style exhibits a childlike, expressive quality, with seemingly spontaneous brushstrokes and a free-flowing, almost surreal representation of the subject matter. This piece likely reflects the artist's personal vision and invites the viewer to explore the rich, symbolic world they have created. ...

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Light in August
Artist
Frederic Tuten
B.1936, American

Frederic Tuten is a celebrated essayist and novelist, who spends his life writing about art and beauty. In his 80s, the artist is wholeheartedly concentrating on his own oil paintings and drawings. Mimicking his effervescent and direct prose, the paintings are full of life. Normative perspective and scale are disregarded as Tuten crafts his otherworldly collages of beings and objects. Ginormous bananas, pears and lemons dwarf skyscrapers in his compositions and divergent planes intersect in the canvas. City streets are filled to the brim with animated figures, sharing the sidewalk with birds, teacups and vases. Delivered in highly pigmented, concrete color, these enrapturing scenes instantly spark the viewer’s imagination as they navigate through Tuten’s surreal blending of scale, color and composition. Tuten cites artists such as Morandi as having a pivotal influence upon his approach to painting, honouring Morandi’s assurance that everyday objects have their own charms and should thus be considered as 'serious' aesthetic subjects. ...

Frederic Tuten: Artworks
Light in August
Frederic Tuten
Light in August, 2022
35.56 x 27.94cm
Still Life with UrgentClouds
Frederic Tuten
Still Life with UrgentClouds, 2022
45.72 x 35.56cm
Fruitland
Frederic Tuten
Fruitland, 2023
101.6 x 76.2cm
Fruitstorm
Frederic Tuten
Fruitstorm, 2023
101.6 x 76.2cm
Birthday
Frederic Tuten
Birthday, 2022
65.4 x 44.45cm
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