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Oritaba II, oil/panel, 56x48 inches, 2010 - SOLD
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Praise
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paintings:
- The painter, Robert Marchessault, depicts
trees as solitary, powerful expereinces of light and colour and mood,
set against a moving sky." (Sarah Hamson, What Comes Throught The Trees,
Globe and Mail, Globe Focus Section, pg. 7, Aug. 13, 2011.)
- "Robert
Marchessault’s paintings are deeply moving in their ability to invite
viewers into a moment of quiet contemplation and this is especially
notable when one realizes that Marchessault himself has described
painting as a meditative experience." (Milena
Placentile, exerpt from: "Social
Consciousness
in
Canadian
Art")
- Robert
Marchessault explores contemporary sublime landscape in paintings that
repeatedly foreground a single tree, stripped of non-essential visual
elements and emptied of any human presence. Poetic and meditative,
these trees are the quiet centre of being and a visual invocation of
human self-awareness. Ilse Gassinger,
2009, Director, The Durham Art Gallery, Ontario, CA
- "Je les trouve
émouvants, à la fois paisibles et puissants." "...moving,
calm and powerful at the same time." (Christine
Lajeunesse, Directrice
artistique, Les Éditions du Boréal)
- "The painter
Robert Marchessaut [has] beautiful textures and light." (Kent
Lovelace,
Southwest Art Magazine, April 2010, pg. 65)
- "Thank you
for giving me so much joy through your art.
I’m a writer, and if my words could affect people one iota as much as
your work
does, the agony of writing would be worth it." Sybil
Gardener,
Screenwriter,
Los
Angeles.
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