Winter Berries – A Study in Repetition and Contrast by artist Arleta Pech

Winter Berries Original by artist Arleta Pech

 The still life subject is placed against a backdrop of white, gray and darkness, creating a grid in cool tones. The warmth of the red buds and berries seem to glow with warmth emanating from an unseen source. The time is clearly winter, suggested by the cold, sleek, silver goblet with its elongated stem; the bowl of the goblet and its red reflections stand tall above the stark branches of the berry plant. Yet the roses are in full bloom in this mid-winter scene. Have we once again gone into Alice’s Wonderland? Is this the red of the Queen of Hearts?    ….more

 

Artist Arleta Pech

Pech achieves an infinite range of hues from a palette of about six colors. The blooms are captured as if still in the garden, glowing with a luminescence, which seems to come from behind the support .

A descendant of abstract impressionist Joseph Milton Glasco (1925-1996), Realism artist Arleta Pech grew up as the only child in a farming family of limited means. Her art exposure came not from museums or art schools, but from paper, paint, crayons, and an imagination …more

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