Gabriel Hartley
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This abstract landscape painting features a captivating interplay of colors and textures. Predominant hues of olive green, brown, and black create a sense of depth and movement, with the surface appearing to ripple and distort like the reflection of a body of water. The composition is characterized by irregular, organic shapes that blend and overlap, evoking a naturalistic, almost geological quality. The artist's distinctive technique, which involves layering and manipulating paint, results in a rich, textured surface that invites close examination. This work likely reflects the artist's exploration of the interplay between the natural world and the human experience of it. ...
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Gabriel Hartley
1981 , BritishGabriel Hartley’s work combines optical effects and iconic markings on highly textured surfaces. His work summons early Modernism’s play with abstraction and perspective. With bold linear brushstrokes and organic, elemental shapes, Hartley’s forms play with space and movement. His painterly effects – generated through a mix of gloss and matte paint – convey both a flatness and a depth that produce a palpable sense of tension. The dusty quality of Hartley’s impasto surfaces recall the paintings of School of Paris artist Jean Fautrier. Hartley fuses seemingly opposing elements: the painterly and the photographic, flatness and depth, and two and three dimensionality. He simultaneously constructs and excavates – building subjects and unraveling them – to create figures at once formative and timeworn. ...