| Robert D Lemar |
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Born 1950
Ann Arbor Michigan
Grew up in Chicago
Currently living in Maryland
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| About the Artist |
My main interest is in color. I have always been fascinated by how we percieve color and have been exploring ways of enhancing or intensifying color. |
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Horizon Series #15
1994 Oil on Canvas 40.6 cm X 50.8 cm |
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The Horizon Series explores our natural tendancy to interpret a horizontal line as a horizon. Using minimalized suggestions of sky, land, and water, these works are meant to evoke a nonspecific time and place while evoking a specific mood.
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Horizon Series # 3
1993 Oil on Canvas 40.6 cm X 50.8 cm |
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The Horizon Series explores our natural tendancy to interpret a horizontal line as a horizon. Using minimalized suggestions of sky, land, and water, these works are meant to evoke a nonspecific time and place while evoking a specific mood. |
RGB Series # 14
2006 Acrylic on Canvas 91.4 cm X 61 cm |
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Using only tints of red, green, and blue, this painting demonstrates how oranges, yellows, cyans, and magentas can be created optically at a distance from the canvas. |
RGB Series # 4
2005 Oil on Canvas 61 cm X 51.8 cm |
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This painting uses tints of red, green, and blue to optically produce yellows, oranges, cyans, and magentas at a distance. The reds on the top of the painting are the same as the reds on the bottom, yet the bottom reds appear more orange. The illusion of yellows and oranges can be seen near the middle of this work. |
Matrix Series # 8
2005 Oil on Canvas 121.9 cm X 91.4 cm |
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In this painting a gradient is broken into rectagles that are then further discected by diagonal lines. |
Matrix Series # 4
2005 Oil on Canvas 147.3 cm X 116.8 cm |
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Three vertical gradients emerge from a horizontal plane of apparent light. This entire surface is fasceted into 5.1 cm. squares.
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Gradient Series # 40
2004 Oil on Canvas 147.3 cm X 116.8 cm |
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A horizontal gradient gives rise to two vertical gradients that are flanked by deminishing versions of themselves. |
Gradient Series # 44
2005 Oil on Canvas 127 cm X 96.5 cm |
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Horizontal and vertical gradients interconnect, overlap and relate to each other. |
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| Education and biography |
Won Golden Key Award for art in Chicago in 1962.
Won scholorship to Art Institute of Chicago in 1963.
Attended Maryland School of Art and Design in 1971.
Portrait artist from 1971 to 1996.
Studied Computer graphics in 2000.
Selected Exhibitions:
One man show at Whitehall Gallery - Annapolis MD. 1995
Sheryl Leonard Gallery Potomac Maryland - 1998
Ingrid Cooper Gallery White Flint Maryland - 2001
Juried show Anne Arundel Community College - 2006
Juried show Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts - 2006 |
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Website: www.rlemar.com |
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