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October Still Life
A vividly colored grouping avoids any appearance of symmetry or regularity of shape—even a painted plate isn’t circular. Likewise, mottling seems part of Preachen’s design as if to demonstrate that beauty can be irregular. Reds and oranges dominate…
Still Life on a Balcony
In its objects, archictecture, and visual style, this painting gestures back to earlier centuries of allegorical still lifes. On this side of an ornate railing, the seeming bounty is undermined by intimations of suffering (gladiolus), overconsumption…
Flower Study
This vividly colorful painting has a lot going on. As with Preachen’s “Still Life on a Balcony,” space is radically discontinuous here: flowers, table covering, fields, and sky each occupy their own flat plane; the dark brown stoneware pitcher…
Green Mountain Village
A gray sky overlooks the main street of a small mountain town, rendered by Prestipino with flat shapes and minimal shading. The unrealistic proportions and perspective in the painting give the image a visual appearance that evokes American folk art,…
Uptown
Uptowndepicts an urban street scene dominated by an elevated railway structure that extends diagonally across the composition. The green metal platform is supported by vertical columns and railings, forming a geometric framework above the street. A…
The Repair Man
About the ArtistLeonard Pytlak (1910–1998) was an American serigrapher, lithographer, painter, teacher, and lecturer born in Newark, New Jersey. He studied at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art before continuing his education at the Art…
New for Old
New for Old is a color lithograph, showing buildings on a street and a crane-like machine. There are what looks like building materials next to the machine. The buildings’ proportions feel slightly off, just enough where they seem to bend a little.…