This vibrant contemporary artwork features a striking combination of colors, shapes, and textures. The central figure, rendered in soft oranges and yellows, appears to be a stylized floral or organic form. Surrounding this central motif are undulating, cloud-like shapes in shades of gray and white, creating a sense of dynamism and movement. The overall composition is framed by a patterned border in deep, earthy tones, adding depth and visual interest. The artist's distinctive style and technique suggest a blend of realism and abstraction, drawing the viewer into a dreamlike, imaginative world. The work may explore themes of nature, spirituality, or the human experience, inviting the viewer to interpret its symbolic meanings. ...
Philip Hanson is an artist connected to the Chicago Imagist movement of the 1960s, artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago whose arrestingly vibrant and graphic artworks traversed a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Throughout his long career, although principally a painter, Philip Hanson has experimented with mezzotint and aquatint, etching and hand-colouring techniques to create rich and layered images. Influenced equally by surrealism, opera and costume, Hanson’s images are dramatic and labyrinthian, both visually and through their incorporation of elaborate constellations of shapes and imagery to communicate internal and externalised emotions spanning love, desire and anguish. ...
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