New Arrivals:

New arrivals - (June) at Christopher Møller Art

Michele Davidson:

"Etcetera", oil oon canvas on board, 36 x 67cm

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Justin Hervey:

"South of Burg Street, Cape Town", oil on canvas, 60 x 90cm

"Long Street, Cape Town", oil on canvas, 60 x 90cm

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Carla van Zyl:

"Meditative Youth", oil on canvas, 100 x 140cm

Footnote: Enhancing the image and playing with colour:

In most of her portraits, Carla uses natural lighting, which is reminiscent of the Dutch master, Jan Vermeer, where works include: "The Girl With The Pearl Earring" and "The Music Lesson", like Vermeer, she uses a natural light source. The lighting creates a cool blue/white colour hue, which enhances the details of the face, such as the worry lines beneath the eyes, or the zipper on the jacket, or the ring on his thumb.

In most of her portraits, the lighting originates from the right hand quadrant of the painting.  If you look closely at the face, you can see the reflection of a window or landscape in the subjects eyes. This creates the feeling of a 'painting within a painting' The method adds depth, by showing us what we don't see, in an otherwise static scene. Hyper-realism distorts or highlights certain features, which sets it apart from Photo-realism or a photograph. Though the image is  visually unrealistic, it portrays a heightened sense of reality.

 The artist also uses dark backgrounds, which contributes greatly to the expressive effects in her work. The effects would be less immediate since the elaborate backgrounds inevitably distracts some of the viewer's attention away from the sitters' face. 

"The eye is the window of the soul...
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world?
... It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind...
It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars;
it has discovered the elements and their location..."

Leonardo da Vinci

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Louis Nel:

"Gariep Dam, Northern Cape", oil on canvas, 80 x 90cm 

"Winding road, Bushveld", oil on canvas, 80 x 90cm

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Henk Serfontein:

"Hanzel Service Station", oil on canvas, 42 x 59cm

"Art Deco, Hanover", oil on canvas, 42 x 59cm

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Eugenie Marais:

"I remember", oil on canvas, 26 x 30cm, SOLD

"This is the place", oil on canvas, 26 x 30cm, SOLD

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