Frozen
This piece is a departure of sorts for me because even though I would categorize it as abstract and began it as a color field piece, it is also suggestive of a landscape. I was losing myself in what was becoming a miasma. I had the urge to make some gestures and break up the cloud. The gestures then progressed to the finished state. Most people who look at it see a frozen pond. That is something elemental and fascinating about the human brain. It is so uncomfortable with uncertainty.
Responses (3)
August 04, 2022
This is lovely. It is interesting to imagine the act of creating it. There is gesture and detail.
February 25, 2022
Yes, I see a frozen hay field... perhaps because I have horses...
February 23, 2022
Susan Wolfe Huppman’s "Frozen" certainly engenders highly subjective interpretation. While the painting is abstract in more ways than I have words to chronicle, I admit, upon first glance, I registered it as markedly figurative. Huppman writes that most people see it as a frozen pond, which never crossed my mind and never would have without the input of others. I still have trouble seeing it as anything other than a winter field of petrified plants. However, as I consider the painting through the interpretation of others, my perception begins to change. A purely gestural abstraction emerges from the initial impression of figuration. Furthermore, the ice-skate-scored surface of a frozen pond becomes increasingly apparent. I don't even know if these interpretations have swayed me in one direction or the other, but they have certainly expanded my understanding of the work.
- Category
- Semi-abstract
- Type
- Painting - Unframed
- Materials
- Oil, Canvas
- Dimensions
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60.00 inches wide
72.00 inches tall
2.50 inches deep - Weight
- 9.00 lbs
- Location
- Reisterstown, MD, US
