Michael Kent
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A writer as well, I paint in oils to convey a sense of narrative, attempting to instill a mood, a sense of the fragility, ephemera, and mystery of things and people--hence my frequent use of light and shadows. Nor do I shy away from color, while trying to skirt the hackneyed.
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Posted Wed, 04/15/2009 - 4:37pm
Oil
3' x 4'
2009
A tribute to the City and the worthy Ashcan school minstrels who depicted it so vibrantly.
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Posted Wed, 03/14/2007 - 2:18pm
Oil
28" x 22"
1999
This is one of a trilogy of Pittsburgh bridges; it connects downtown to the Andy Warhol museum. Based on a couple of photographs it says a lot about the artist, Michael Kent: a tormented latter-day romantic, searching, probing, never quite finding nor wanting to find. The misty day lent itself to a style not characteristically impressionistic, yet gritty, capturing a certain mood rather than attemtping some slavish or pretty rendition of reality. Bleak in some ways, a dose of humor is injected via the written word.
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