An homage to an homage... I've always been a big fan of Ferdinand Keller a contemporary of Arnold Bocklin who painted the famous "Isle of The Dead" series. One of Keller's paintings is "The Tomb of Bocklin" which was an homage to Bocklin and I in turn am painting an imagination of Keller's Tomb which I have attempted to paint in Keller's style. I have composed it with his trademark dark cypress trees massed together to form dark dramatic shapes against the rocky mountains. The Wisteria is a nod to Keller's painting of Bocklin's tomb. To my mind this has an element of being two paintings in one with a Ferdinand Keller landscape in the foreground set against a landscape reminiscent of the Hudson River School... but I guess I'm too close to it and other people won't see it in this way... I guess I couldn't stop it eventually coming out like a Mark Harrison landscape painting which I guess is no bad thing...
Oil on linen 22" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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