F T Kettering
ArtistUSA
About Artist:
"Modern archaeologists exploring the cemeteries of ancient Athens unearthed some of the most moving images in the history of art. Above each grave stood a stone slab with a single scene carved on its face. The scene showed the deceased alone or in the company of family or friends. All were presented as in life." Kettering, Divine Company
About Artwork:
"Three ages of man." An old man and a boy grieve for a muscular hunter, lost in his prime. These sculpted figures come from an ancient Greek gravestone. The shape behind the boy comes from an oil jar used in Greek funeral rites.
Both the symmetrical composition and its vivid colors are borrowed from Renaissance paintings.
But the formal tensions in the image - flat vs modeled, partial vs whole, precarious vs stable - arise from a 21st-century imagination using digital technology. Three ages of art.
F T Kettering
Three Ages
- 2017
- 38 x 30 inches
- Fine Art Category: digital
- Medium: pigment print
- Origin: USA
- Signed: Signed verso
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Three Ages is a new work, never shown before.
The work will ship in a sturdy mailing tube, as a high-quality, semi-gloss digital inkjet print, 38" wide by 30" tall. Signed en verso with my name and monogram.
Buyers are encouraged to choose their own format for framing and display.
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- Price: $3,000.00 USD
- Seller: F T Kettering, USA
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- Artplode ID: 3560
- Artplode Seller ID: 1520
About Artist:
"Modern archaeologists exploring the cemeteries of ancient Athens unearthed some of the most moving images in the history of art. Above each grave stood a stone slab with a single scene carved on its face. The scene showed the deceased alone or in the company of family or friends. All were presented as in life." Kettering, Divine Company
About Artwork:
"Three ages of man." An old man and a boy grieve for a muscular hunter, lost in his prime. These sculpted figures come from an ancient Greek gravestone. The shape behind the boy comes from an oil jar used in Greek funeral rites.
Both the symmetrical composition and its vivid colors are borrowed from Renaissance paintings.
But the formal tensions in the image - flat vs modeled, partial vs whole, precarious vs stable - arise from a 21st-century imagination using digital technology. Three ages of art.
