Bo Bartlett / Manifest Destiny

 

 

Alexis
2006
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 33 x 33 inches

 

 

 

Betsy in the Mirror
2006
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 33 x 33 inches

 

 

 

 

Habeas Corpus
2006
Medium: oil on linen
Dimensions: 82 x 138 inches

 

 

 

Bodhisattva
2006
Medium: oil on linen
Dimensions: 80 x 54 inches

 

 

 

Via Mal Contenti
2006
Medium: oil on linen
Dimensions: 82 x 56 inches

 

 

 

 

The Good Traveller
2006
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 35 x 48 inches

 

 

 

 

Au Matin
2006
Medium: oil on linen
Dimensions: 82 x 122 inches

 

 

 

 

Analysis of the Bride
2006
Medium: oil on linen
Dimensions: 35 ¼ x 48 inches

 

 

 

 

Betsy Eby
2006
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 33 x 33 inches

 

 

 

 

 

Car Crash
2006
Medium: oil on panel

 

 

 

 

Self Portrait, Seattle
2006
Medium: oil on panel

 

 

 

 

Manifest Destiny
2006
Medium: oil on panel

 

 

 

 

For Matthew Shepherd
2006
Medium: oil on panel

 

 

 

 

Burning Broom
2006
Medium: oil on panel

 

 

 

 

Longshoremen
2006
Medium: oil on panel

 

 

 

 

Amazon
2006
Medium: oil on panel

 

 

 

 

Father and Son in Seattle
2006
Medium: oil on panel

 

 

 

 

 

Return to Hope
2006
Medium: oil on linen

 

 

 

 

Maiden Voyage
2006
Medium: oil on panel

 

 

 

 

Allegiance
2007
Medium: oil on panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision.

His paintings are well within the tradition of American realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth.

Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America’s heart—its land and its people—and describes the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary. And like Wyeth, Bartlett sees the import!ance of the smallest details in the overall picture and imbues his work with surreal ambiguity.

Bartlett was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where realist principles must be grasped before modernist ventures are encouraged. He pushes the boundaries of the realist tradition with his multilayered imagery. Life, death, passage, memory, and confrontation coexist easily in his world. Family and friends are the cast of characters that appear in his dreamlike narrative works. Although the scenes are set around his childhood home in Georgia, his island summer home in Maine, his home in Pennsylvania or the surroundings of his studio and residence in Washington state, they represent a deeper, mythical concept of the archetypal, universal home.

 

 

 

 

Menifest Destiny 를 '명백한 사명'이라고 번역을 해야 하는지 모르겠지만

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