The artwork presents a vibrant and whimsical city landscape. Prominent features include bold, expressive brushstrokes in a variety of bright colors, such as red, blue, and green. Distinct shapes and forms suggest cityscape elements like buildings and trees, while abstract shapes and patterns add a playful, imaginative touch. The piece employs a distinctive, childlike style that conveys a sense of joy and wonder. The artist's intention appears to be capturing the energy and liveliness of an urban setting through a unique, imaginative lens. ...
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. ...
