Eagle Rock Hillside Painting By Daniel Clarke

Year:

Medium:

Acrylic Painting

Size - (USA):

24 W x 18 H x 0.2 D (inches)

Size - (metric):

61.0 W x 45.7 H x 0.5 D (centimeters)

Theme:

Landscape

Edition:

Original

Artwork ID:

626531

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Artwork Description:

I can imagine someone who found these fields unbearable, who climbed the hillside in the heat, cursing the dust, cracking the brittle weeds underfoot, wishing a few more trees for shade. An Easterner especially, who would scorn the meagerness of summer, the dry twisted shapes of black elm, scrub oak, and chaparral, a landscape August has already drained of green. One who would hurry over the clinging thistle, foxtail, golden poppy, knowing everything was just a weed, unable to conceive that these trees and sparse brown bushes were alive. And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion, the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain – the skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water.

Artwork Keywords:   Original Painting

Materials:   Acrylic Paintings