dandylion0505
May 23, 2012, 05:47 AM
Okay so...
... many years ago I was sent (an invitation to an exhibition I think) a postcard with a fabulous (or at least it is in memory) depiction of a farmyard scene. I looked at it every day for about a week. Then I thought, I like this so much I should probably put it "somewhere safe", which I promptly did where presumably it remains to this day. I was intending to write a story using it as an impetus.
I think it's a painting (oil) & it is from a high POV looking down on a scene of comic chaos. I've titled my query farmyard chase painting as I think there was some sort of chase, like a domino effect where one thing had affected another in a chain reaction.
The shapes of the animals are slightly warped, or at least the perspective is forced/skewed somewhat to add to the craziness. There was a vague hint of "cartoonishness" but the animals were clearly the real thing, just with slightly strange/startled expressions or physiques.
I know there was a windmill on one side, a series of farm buildings, house, barn/shed, type thing. Everything feels snug within the edges of the painting. Possible an openness in the middle of the painting (within the yard?).
Chickens, cows, perhaps the family dog were involved. I have a feeling the rooster was on the platform at the top of the windmill (or it might have been a weathervane on the roof). I don't believe there were any people. If so, they did not stand out.
The prevailing colour is perhaps in the red, orange, yellow end of the spectrum.
Now bare in mind this was all 15 or so years ago & repeated attempts to find it, both physically in my house/attic/shed & online via Google images & art databases, etc may have tempered my recollections somewhat.
HOWEVER, if anyone can help me determine the name of this piece or the artist, I shall be eternally grateful. & if it is as good as I remember... & I do write the story, I shall make sure those who helped me receive acknowledgement.
gareth
NB I live in Australia, so the exhibition may have been for a living Australian artist... but maybe not too. The windmill in memory feels "australian outback looking" in my memory. I grew up on a farm in South Australia.
I am also tempted to use the words surreal & abstract... but do not want to temper people's perception of the piece... because if either of those terms apply, it is only in a very minimal sense.
Thanks again.
... many years ago I was sent (an invitation to an exhibition I think) a postcard with a fabulous (or at least it is in memory) depiction of a farmyard scene. I looked at it every day for about a week. Then I thought, I like this so much I should probably put it "somewhere safe", which I promptly did where presumably it remains to this day. I was intending to write a story using it as an impetus.
I think it's a painting (oil) & it is from a high POV looking down on a scene of comic chaos. I've titled my query farmyard chase painting as I think there was some sort of chase, like a domino effect where one thing had affected another in a chain reaction.
The shapes of the animals are slightly warped, or at least the perspective is forced/skewed somewhat to add to the craziness. There was a vague hint of "cartoonishness" but the animals were clearly the real thing, just with slightly strange/startled expressions or physiques.
I know there was a windmill on one side, a series of farm buildings, house, barn/shed, type thing. Everything feels snug within the edges of the painting. Possible an openness in the middle of the painting (within the yard?).
Chickens, cows, perhaps the family dog were involved. I have a feeling the rooster was on the platform at the top of the windmill (or it might have been a weathervane on the roof). I don't believe there were any people. If so, they did not stand out.
The prevailing colour is perhaps in the red, orange, yellow end of the spectrum.
Now bare in mind this was all 15 or so years ago & repeated attempts to find it, both physically in my house/attic/shed & online via Google images & art databases, etc may have tempered my recollections somewhat.
HOWEVER, if anyone can help me determine the name of this piece or the artist, I shall be eternally grateful. & if it is as good as I remember... & I do write the story, I shall make sure those who helped me receive acknowledgement.
gareth
NB I live in Australia, so the exhibition may have been for a living Australian artist... but maybe not too. The windmill in memory feels "australian outback looking" in my memory. I grew up on a farm in South Australia.
I am also tempted to use the words surreal & abstract... but do not want to temper people's perception of the piece... because if either of those terms apply, it is only in a very minimal sense.
Thanks again.