Hill People (revisited)
Acrylic on hardboard 24" x 24"
After a week's break I have today done some re-working of the 'Hill People' painting. (I took the previous version off). I'm sort of interested in it so for me that is the key factor. I can't say I won't still work on it but for now I think it's in a temporary state of survival. Tribes, clans, communities, we all think they're odd unless we belong to one.
posted by Sheila Vaughan at 3:16 PM
6 Comments:
Clans and tribes. Good observation, and we all do belong to one. Humanity.
Love this.
XOBarbara
Grant Wood's folk were grim, too. Members of the humorless tribe. Abject party-poopers, they're forever cursed to be the butt of bad poster art.
I love it Sheila, it's odd and compelling, and a little discomfiting in a desirable way.
Karen Lalioff
Thanks Barbara. Yes, that is one way of looking at it!
Sam, ah "American Gothic". I have carried Grant Wood's painting in my head since first seeing it many years ago. There is something of the party pooper in many of us I guess (laugh out loud).
Karen, thanks. That's exactly how I hoped it would be seen.
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