by Robert E. Miller
Hootenany at Nancys
by Robert E. Miller |
Hootenany at Nancys |
|
Enthusiasm
for differences, the natural and unnatural landscapes city and country
people pass every day or night, seems to me a major theme in the paintings
of Myron Heise. In the rural scenes the contrasts blend rather than
clash: the assertive white storefront belongs with the leafy trees soaring
above it; they are all one, as are the cows and feeling of sunlight
on the pasture in another oil of "Country Days - City Nights."
|
Nature,
whether country's or humanity's, is the physical world people look at
and respond to with feelings that in themselves may be abrasive or gentle,
even guardedly - romantic. Those green trees are powerful if playful,
the storefront urgently white as at noon. These paintings are human
documents of places at times of light or dark.
|
|
A subway tunnel is all gray tones, and that color portrays a city which is dominantly gray and often darkly intriguing as a tunnel, though Heise finds assertive symbols that stand against it, like the blazing neon of Times Square. There is the outstanding "Canon Times Square" with its blur of human figures underneath the huge ad for Canon camera, a symbol I find thrilling: the idea of faceless human beings dwarfed by their own inventiveness; it is at the same time a kind of celebration of the Electric Century of the City, and the lack of humanity implicit in his choice of symbol. |
|
|
.
. . the electric century of the city . . .
|
|
|
But what Myron Heise is excited by is the clash and then the union of colors, and the almost quietly godlike force of the building shapes and stature. It all goes together in the art, though in reality it is often a distortion of a dream, and ugly. In Heise's paintings the vision is always present, and there is neither ugliness nor beauty, only nature or its great opposite and denier, the city, which is, we could say, the ultimate product of human nature in its sophistication and command of the elements which seem so natural and personal on the farm, like the blacksmith shop, or the lovely landscape of "Bancroft and Beyond" with its subtle intrusions of the present in the sign and the implements we live by. |
|
The strength of Heise's art is neither surreal nor realistic, but a highly individual painter's poetic response to the things of this world. It is an exuberance of objects and people against flat surfaces, and it is deeper than the easily assumed atmospheric. Each canvas in this collection has its drama of narrative and comment, accessible and compelling, frequently profound, always spirited. The
exhibition will be on view from January 9th thru February 18th at |
View Paintings by Myron
Heise - Recent Series Art Collection
and View Press
Release
Art Review - NYAW.com
Click on ORDER FORM for Inquiries -
PAYMENT OPTIONS for Art Purchase.
All artwork is copyright of the respective owner or artist. All other material © 2013 New York Art World ®. All Rights Reserved.
NewYorkArtWorld ® - Back to Top
