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"Be Careful" oil on linen 34" x 46" 2011 |
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"Dear Prudence" oil on linen 12" x 10" 2010 |
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"Justice" oil on linen 12" x 9" 2011 |
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"Legion of Loose Ladies" oil on linen 28" x 26" 2011 |
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"Tired Helen" oil on linen 9" x 8" 2010 |
Robert Ernst Marx is a very well established artist who earned his BFA and MFA in Illinois back in the early 1950s. So he's not the usual young up and coming artist looking for a bit of exposure that I usually try to post. But this is all current work from an artist who is still actively striving to perfect his visual language. He creates fascinating and haunting portraits and figures that employ a highly developed collection of marks, techniques and symbolic props. These people, whether real or imagined, reflect the artist's fairly dark vision of humanity and his own admitted obsessions concerning "...the arrogance of power, the exclusivity of the institutions of church and state, abuse by and of both spouse and child, and our own and others' personal fears and insecurities." But for all the dark brooding pessimism of our all too human nature, there is a haunting beauty to the work that attracts the viewer rather than repels. There is also an ambiguity that invites the viewer to interpret and meditate on the nature of both man and art.
Check out his website: roberternstmarx.com
And you can see much more work at the following galleries:
http://www.davidsongalleries.com/artists/marx/marx-dc.php
http://masonmurer.info/robert-marx
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