Barbara Krupp - "Arbor" Acrylic Painting

"Arbor"
Acrylic Painting.
12" x 12" Unframed.


Barbara Krupp

Barbara trained to be an x-ray technician. From that time on, as T.S. Eliot wrote in his "Whispers of Immortality," I have seen "the skull beneath the skin."
The structure of the painting is very important to her, and in her most recent series she has, in a manner of speaking, allowed the bones of the painting-both compositionally and metaphorically, become the painting's' subject matter.
Georgia O'Keeffe, whose early 1940s series of pelvic bones enclosed spaces that later in the decade became forms themselves, she found the areas of interest in her own landscape and floral abstractions to be the atmospheric spaces between forms. She came to realize that the significance in her paintings was not in the forms, but in the spaces in between them.
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