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asking permission

 

 

The choice

 

sit down lunch

 

determination

 

Here first

 

My fig

 

harvest

 

jellyroll

 

lunchbreak

 

smells so good

 

месть

 

парад

 

 

 

 

best green one

 

twins

 

pair

 

hard work

 

caboose

 

stay away

 

berry hill

 

bonanza

 

popcorn alley

 

Smell the Roses

 

Hot pepper

 

Mirror

 

Brave Soul

 

something familiar

 

Prize Fig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mouse-vanitas

 

peace-offering

 

big trouble

 

expedition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Being a painter, musician and author, sight, sound and words are the tools of Stuart Dunkel's expression. He began painting at age five and at age seven he began studying music. The very discipline of formal training has always appealed to him and he has dedicated his life to the in-depth study of them. Dunkel studied music and art at Boston University, Mannes College of Music, the Juilliard School (Doctorate), and art at the Boston Museum School, Kent State, the Academy of Realist Art, the Seattle Academy of Art as well as privately with respected teachers. After all that he still feels that he is self-taught.

His breakthrough moment in art was when it was revealed to him that music and art were made up of the same ideas. Conceptual juxtaposition has always been his gift. "Rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, balance, contrast, scales, chromatism, keys, high and low, dark and bright, loud and soft, colorful and dull, jumbled in my minds eye - all the polarities in the arts and indeed in life itself! I have the ability to think of a scene or object and project it on my minds screen and then draw and paint from it."

"I usually enjoy the darkest of backgrounds in my still life paintings as it affords the eye the most comfortable place to perceive reality at its beginning. The great Netherlands artist of the 16th century knew this, and many of the most beautiful images are set against a blackish backdrop. This perception enforces my belief that nothing exists until light is draped over it. From the nothingness of black we build up to the perceived objects. As in love, we create the feeling the other inspires in us. As in art, we create the feeling to inspire the others in us. In other words, we must think of the consequences of our actions and what results each brushstroke communicates.

Recently I fell in love with landscape painting. I don't know if being out in the elements surrounded by God, the slight tweaking of composition that is already set up for me, or how free I can be with my palette of colors that inspired me. My concept seems to be a combination of the lush Hudson River School and the compositional elements of the California Impressionists. I don't censor what emerges from my brush as much as I do with my still life and with that I find great freedom."

(http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=7388)