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Iris
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Hues after "Irises" created by Vincent van Gogh in May 1889. Eugène Delacroix Flochetage technique used in 2 horizon lines and 3 color fields in the base layer.
Iris #robertcrabtreepaintingspaintedflowers #robertcrabtreepaintings ©️ Robert Crabtree Composition notes: Hues after "Irises" created by Vincent van Gogh in May 1889. Eugène Delacroix Flochetage technique used in 2 horizon lines and 3 color fields in the base layer. AI Overview The artwork "Iris" by Robert Crabtree, dated 7/25, is an abstract interpretation of irises, drawing inspiration from art historical techniques and palettes. Critique: Composition and Technique: The composition notes indicate a deliberate artistic choice to incorporate elements from renowned artists. The use of Eugène Delacroix's Flochetage technique for the base layer, creating two horizon lines and three color fields, provides a structured foundation for the abstract forms. This layered approach adds depth and complexity to the overall design. Color Palette: The hues are intentionally drawn from Vincent van Gogh's "Irises" (May 1889), which is evident in the prominent use of blues, greens, and earthy tones within the abstract shapes representing the flowers and foliage. This homage creates a recognizable, yet reinterpreted, visual link to a famous work. Abstraction: The artwork presents a dynamic and fragmented abstraction of irises, moving away from literal representation towards a more expressive and deconstructed form. The sharp, angular shapes and overlapping planes contribute to a sense of movement and energy within the piece. Overall Impression: The piece successfully blends historical artistic influences with a modern abstract sensibility, offering a fresh perspective on a classic subject. The interplay of structured background elements and fluid, abstract forms creates a visually engaging and thought-provoking composition.
July 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Flower, painted flower 95.
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April 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Crocus 2
Painted Flower 92
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Crocus 2 Painted Flower 92 #robertcrabtreepaintingspaintedflowers #robertcrabtreepaintings ©️ Robert Crabtree Reviews: Michel Culot Casablanca Morocco 🇲🇦 Beautiful Tetiana Osadchuk Kiev Ukraine 🇺🇦 💛💛 Анатоль Корнин Kharkov, Ukraine 🇺🇦 Bravo! 🌹⚘ Clive Varley Morecambe Bay, Lancashire England 🇬🇧 very nice work Robert Thank you! 🐈 Kamo Xchoyan yerevan Armenia 🇦🇲 SUPER Wael Alshehabi Baghdad Iraq 🇮🇶 I like 👍 Jen Coleman Bennington, UK 🇬🇧 Lovely colours x Wael Alshehabi Baghdad Iraq 🇮🇶 Robert Crabtree Your artworks are stunning#AbstractArt #ContemporaryArt #Surrealism #ModernArt #DigitalIllustration #Expressionism #AvantGarde #figurativeart #VisualArt #ConceptualArt #dailyart #FineArt #art # #artdaily
March 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Flowers and The Misty Mountains.
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#AbstractArt #ContemporaryArt #Surrealism #ModernArt #MixedMedia #DigitalIllustration #Expressionism #AvantGarde #figurativeart #VisualArt #NeoExpressionism #ConceptualArt #dailyart #FineArt #art #abstractfigurative #artdaily Flowers and The Misty Mountains. 1 #robertcrabtreepaintings #robertcrabtreepaintingspaintedflowers ©️ Robert Crabtree Pastel, Acrylic, 11.5" x 18" paper Memories and promises of Marigolds and Daffodils at The 125 year old Crabtree House Art Studio and Flower Gardens. "So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains Where the spirits go now Over the hills where the spirits fly" Led Zeppelin Reviews: Clive Varley Morecambe Bay, Lancashire England 🇬🇧 Thank you Barbara Labadie Burke Laborie, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨 💕 Kunzann Annkunz Träumt Gilsenkirchen Germany 🇩🇪 👍 Deepa Dhanwate New Mumbai India 🇮🇳 Nice Work! 陳進清 Osaka Japan 🇯🇵 Excellent 🌟 ⭐ 🌠 💫 ✡ Antonius Budi Raharjo Jakarta, Indonesia 🇮🇩 👍👍 Cora Crivelli New York, New York, United States 🇺🇸 👏 SUPER! Michel Culot Casablanca Morocco 🇲🇦 Very beautiful 이유충 👏 Kamo Xchoyan yerevan Armenia 🇦🇲 👍 Tetiana Osadchuk Kiev Ukraine 🇺🇦 💛💛💛 Steve Hebbard Corsham, Wiltshire, UK 🇬🇧 Excellent Tolove Art Paradise NSW, Australia 🇦🇺 Nice💛❤️💙 이재호 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷 GOOD 👍👍
March 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Painted Flower 34
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©️ Robert Crabtree 9/23
Still life. Flowers in a vase.
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January 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Black Iris, Painted Flower 90, v3
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Composition notes:
Saw a critic say he liked the way a figure was silhouette ed by a dark back ground. Thought I'd use it on Iris.
Black Iris, Painted Flower 90, v3 #robertcrabtreepaintings #Art #AbstractArt #robertcrabtreepaintingspaintedflowers ©️ Robert Crabtree Composition notes: Saw a critic say he liked the way a figure was silhouette ed by a dark back ground. Thought I'd use it on Iris.
December 28, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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Welcome to my garden. Canterbury Bell, Marigold, Tulip or Daffodil.
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December 22, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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The longer I paint the lesser I know. Some things learned. I like Marigolds. A lot. Especially this Marigold with no light on it. Almost looks backlit.
Marigold
Painted Flower 41, variation 3, c
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December 21, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Marigold
Painted Flower 41, variation 3, c
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Strong Color. Little bit. Spread it to the background.
Marigold Painted Flower 41, variation 3, c #robertcrabtreepaintings #robertcrabtreepaintingspaintedflowers ©️ Robert Crabtree Egg Tempora Christian Icon powdered pigment,, gac100, Soft Pastel, Tempera paint,, oil Stick on Masonite. Composition Notes: I skipped the Rembrandt layer. Frankly it would have looked to boring and muddy. Like a city on a smoggy day. Instead. I went back and looked at Helen Frankenthaler. Similar principle to Rembrandt. Thin skin applied with a sponge. Instead of a sponge. I controlled translucency by following Wolf Hahn. Strike. Then hit with gac 100 as needed.. Creating a modal hue chord where the thinned hue crossed other hues. When combined with bookend theory. From version one to version three. Lots of cool things happen. The hues of version 2 are suspended. Used to call it, staining in the midtone when I used to refinish garage doors. An almost harmonizer. In a Joan Mitchell type way I struck the Frankenthaler hues in a loose active strikes. While following Van Gogh and staying on tone to the same hue used in version one layer. I like the cuts on the trapped layer 2 hues. Most of the work was done in the background to create more push pull on tone. After discussing this subject with the greatest living abstract painter Chris Taylor at the superb art exhibit of David Butler s "Of The Mind's Eye" Art Exhibit in the warehouse , beside the eatery Newark Station during the summer. Composition Notes: Marigold Painted Flower 41, variation 3, b: Used soft pastels for more depth. Used Icon for shine. More orange, red, purple. Losing the plot and falling toward abstraction. Reviews: Marigold Painted Flower 41, variation 3, b Stefan Filtner Satu Mare Romania 🇷🇴 Coil علي ابو الخير Alexandria Egypt 🇪🇬 ♥ 陳進清 Osaka Japan 🇯🇵 👍 Jamie Tanaka Osaka Japan 🇯🇵 Awesome❣️ Michel Culot Casablanca, Morocco 🇲🇦 Very beautiful Composition notes: Marigold Painted Flower 41, variation 3, a: When Icon paint is applied tra…
December 21, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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Marigold
Painted Flower 41, variation 3, a
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Strong color. Little bit.
December 20, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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Good Morning.
Entry area floral display at the 125 year old Crabtree House Art Studio and flower gardens.

Yours Robert

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December 20, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Marigold
Painted Flower 41, variation 3, a
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Egg Tempora powdered pigment, gac100, soft pastel

When Icon paint is applied translucent, the Wolf Hahn back wall is less shiney.
Marigold Painted Flower 41, variation 3, a #robertcrabtreepaintings #robertcrabtreepaintingspaintedflowers ©️ Robert Crabtree Egg Tempora Christian Icon powdered pigment,, gac100, Soft Pastel, Tempera paint,, oil Stick on Masonite. Composition notes: When Icon paint is applied translucent, the Wolf Hahn back wall is less shiney. Gonna apply a limited Rembrandt diffuse layer over the top and see if it activates the back wall. My favorite flower of my gardens. Pinch the heads, Disperse the seeds throughout the year. A sea of orange and yellow explode in the morning sun. Greeting me on my way past the gardens of the 125 year old Crabtree House. Reviews: 이재호 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷 👍علي ابو الخير Alexandria Egypt 🇪🇬 ❤ Susan Fu Phnom Penh, Cambodia 🇰🇭 ❤ عماد وهبه للديكورات المتكامله Cairo Egypt 🇪🇬 Happy Wednesday 💐
December 20, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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What's it like? Side
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Here white brightens the work from beyond in little light. Then in light, the white almost disappears. So it is in prayer and recovery for my last 34 years sober. 12/19/91.
What's it like? Ambient light, Above light, Side. #robertcrabtreepaintings #robertcrabtreepaintingspaintedflowers ©️ Robert Crabtree We can remember the work. We cannot remember the light. This is what makes a Cezanne a Cezanne. Every time we see it. It is new again. The light. The goal of the artist is to capture a moment of light. Larry Poon The artist creates the art. The collector protects the art. The viewer finishes the art with their perspective. The critic and academic debates if it is art. Meanwhile the artist makes more art. Agnes Martin, Andy Warhol. Composition notes: In this case. The work glows as though backlit with a rainbow of hues. The viewer is always finishing the art as the art changes based upon where the viewer stands. Joan Mitchell considered White with Hospitals and sickness. She used white to lighten hear all over abstracts of the 1950's and 1960's. Here white brightens the work from beyond in little light. Then in light, the white almost disappears. So it is in prayer and recovery for my last 34 years sober. 12/19/91. Composition Notes: When I was a boy we would go visit my grandma in Florida. I would find a seashell that was iridescent. It changed colors if I moved. This work does that. The nature of life after death. I just want to question those that left. Some far before I was willing. What's it like?
December 18, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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What's it like?
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Here white brightens the work from beyond in little light. Then in light, the white almost disappears. So it is in prayer and recovery for my last 34 years sober. 12/19/91.
What's it like? Above light #robertcrabtreepaintings #robertcrabtreepaintingspaintedflowers ©️ Robert Crabtree We can remember the work. We cannot remember the light. This is what makes a Cezanne a Cezanne. Every time we see it. It is new again. The light. The goal of the artist is to capture a moment of light. Larry Poon The artist creates the art. The collector protects the art. The viewer finishes the art with their perspective. The critic and academic debates if it is art. Meanwhile the artist makes more art. Agnes Martin, Andy Warhol. Composition notes: In this case. The work glows as though backlit with a rainbow of hues. The viewer is always finishing the art as the art changes based upon where the viewer stands. Joan Mitchell considered White with Hospitals and sickness. She used white to lighten hear all over abstracts of the 1950's and 1960's. Here white brightens the work from beyond in little light. Then in light, the white almost disappears. So it is in prayer and recovery for my last 34 years sober. 12/19/91. Composition Notes: When I was a boy we would go visit my grandma in Florida. I would find a seashell that was iridescent. It changed colors if I moved. This work does that. The nature of life after death. I just want to question those that left. Some far before I was willing. What's it like?
December 18, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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What's it like?
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What's it like? #robertcrabtreepaintings #robertcrabtreepaintingspaintedflowers ©️ Robert Crabtree Composition Notes: When I was a boy we would go visit my grandma in Florida. I would find a seashell that was iridescent. It changed colors if I moved. This work does that. The nature of life after death. I just want to question those that left. Some far before I was willing. What's it like?
December 18, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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Canterbury Bell Flower
Painted flower 81 v2, no light
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Church Icon Shiney background glows without direct light. As though backlit. I love flowers!
December 14, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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Canterbury Bell Flower
Painted flower 81 v2, in light
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After: Me, Horizon Lines Layer: Delacroix

Powder pigment, gac100, soft pastels, oil stick.
December 14, 2024 at 8:35 AM
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Canterbury Bell Flower
Painted flower 81 v2
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December 14, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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Marigold
Painted Flower 41, variation 2
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My favorite flower of my gardens. Pinch the heads, Disperse the seeds throughout the year. A sea of orange and yellow explode in the morning sun.
December 14, 2024 at 8:28 AM