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Robert Anderson S/N Hopelessly Watching Litho Print

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Robert Anderson S/N Hopelessly Watching Litho Print
Artist: Robert AndersonTitle: Hopelessly WatchingMedium: Litho print on paperSignature: Signed by artist, lower rightEdition: 193/250, lower leftImage size: 16" x 21 1/4" * Sheet size: 27 3/4" x 20" * Condition: ExcellentBiography * Robert Anderson's work has, in contrast to his refined photo-realist * technique, a definite, causal blu'e-jeaned feeling of the 60's and 70's. * Anderson also successfully combines imagery from different eras of * American history into modern muses and fantasies. His work has also been * called "Victoriana Revisited" which is a description of the subject * matter and overall atmosphere. All of Anderson's canvases are good to * look at, a quality that makes their offbeat manipulation of time and * space very acceptable. * * Anderson uses a soft focus airbrush technique. He uses shadows to * show that his foreground figures are not really part of their settings. * His combination of soft-edged and hard-edged techniques provoke the * viewer to wonder if all the elements are truly a part of the same scene. * Anderson's paintings are executed in a surrealist vein. Although they * celebrate people and faces in a realist way, the atmosphere they evoke * reaches into moods. * * The moods suggest mysteries of personality, character and the mind; * thus, one is confronted with a kind of uneasy psychological portrait * that transcends the visual, data of the features and body. The artist * achieves his pictorial ambiguity between the real and surreal by the * precision with which he depicts an individual and the uncertainty * suggested by bold, dark areas and the somewhat telepathic glances of his * subjects. * *Retrieved from: http://www.artrev.com/art/artists/biography.asp?aid=148&artist=Robert%20Anderson * *