Bush Street Summer Day (triptych) • Joe Forkan 2009 Oil on panel 14.25″ x 8.5″
Here are a couple of new paintings from the Spurgeon series. These are views from my studio in downtown Santa Ana. I’m finishing up some work for an upcoming show of landscape and cityscape paintings.
I’ll post more information on that soon.
Spurgeon Tower 11:45 winter • Joe Forkan 2010 Oil on panel 10″ x 10″
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (After Friedrich) • Joe Forkan 2009, oil on linen, 80" x 48"
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog • Caspar David Friedrich 1818 Oil on canvas 37.3 in × 29.4 in Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Caspar David Friedrich was an important 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter. The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, like many of his paintings, is an allegorical landscape featuring a contemplative figure surrounded by nature. “His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world“.
I took a similar approach in making this painting about Los Angeles.