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Item Number: 137275
Title: FRANK HOLLIDAY
Author: Nanetti, Andrea ; Michael Walsh
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788864032047
Description: Poggibonsi: Carlo Cambi, 2015. 30cm., hardcover, 192pp. illus. English text. Summary: The paintings of Frank Holliday are transporting. With their suggestive depths and their surface sensations of bodily presence, these are pictures that pulsate with like forms in a credible atmosphere. They are abstract paintings that exude sensations of landscape. Invariably, a horizon line is implied. The layering of paint and the interaction of wash imply shallow foreground and deep space. Abundance and variety of color correspond to verdant nature. The very effects of paint on canvas, whether drips or dabs or stains or puddles or encrustations, mimic weather, as does his magical ability to paint wet-in-wet while retaining vibrancy and freshness. The unabashed loveliness of Holliday’s paintings is something unusual in the current artistic climate. His is the kind of beauty to which artists today rarely strive, at least in the sophisticated circles to which Holliday belongs, with his training, background and intellectual ambition. And when contemporary artists do reference such beauty they tend do so ironically. Holliday bucks the trend. He wields romanticism as a weapon.

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