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Art becomes Us 1996
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39" height figure with 39"x 39" painting
wood, copper, tin, resin, paint
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Bathers Maenads 1993
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40"x56" emulsified black oil paint on linen
Maenads after bathing display a dance-like freedom of women. During the rule of the Roman Empire their rights were unsuccessfully contained.
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The Valley of Decision 2003
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Emulsified black oil paint on linen
"And the vats of blood would overflow as the angel in the valley of decision harvested those from the earth who chose not to believe.
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Mother Child 1989
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34 1/2"x57 1/2" Acrylic paint on linen. From the moment we were born we begin to learn to see and experience life, and as the mother tries to hold back her child securely holding him as he reaches out and opens up to experience life, Seeing through learning, and learning to see.
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Dance of the Clouds 2004
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28"x39" Wood on Elmasiga board
"Woodscapes" is s genre that is derived from he artist's concept off replacing paint with wood. Replacing the linen canvas with Elmasiga panel
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L'Arbre Mousik 2018
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68 1/2"x76" Acrylic,rock on linen
The music elements in this piece include a vivacci movement of the layering branches compared to the counterpoint with the sedentary fading key house which is overcome with such movement. The motif of the blowing leaves create a lively dance to this music.
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Yellow House 1995
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This painting should be titled Yellow with House due to the house mostly lays in shadows of complementary color. Uses of yellow as the main motif is placed in the main verticals and horizontals, but also variations on the theme throughout the foliage, especially the banana plant. The obtrusive placement of the cactus parallels well with the house main support beam as with the other verticals of plant stalks, shutters and fence posts. The Key light creates latge geometice shapes as well.
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Castillo Vecchio 1993
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61 1/2"x30 1/2" Acrylic on canvas
This piece is no. 2 of the his "Pictures at an Exhibition". A Largo tempo allows the oboe solo to meander thru the cathedral light and mist. Almost dream-like as the troubadour plays a serenade to his lover, perhaps a love lost. A largo tempo set periodically with a light tap of the timpani not to disturb the solo theme song that is reintroduced throughout the tonal 10 'pictures' of Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition'. With extensive research trying to identify the original 'Pictures' created by Mussorgsky's close friend Victor Hartmann, JL has then incorporated the tonal compositional elements in his 10 paintings completing his "Pictures at an Exhibition".
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Rhapsody in Blue 1988
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The artist sat on the beach for weeks when he first arrived in Florida and studied the vast nature of the ocean, sky and clouds. It gave him extreme highly emotional feelings. Rhapsody is a perfect word for this work. He decided to stay and study the unique Florida light and its visual effects on nature. He saw the translucent effects of the ocean's moving water and yet the opaqueness of the cloud's reflections on it. He layered very thin translucent paper to cerate various depths of the water. He built up more paper in the waves and the especially in the clouds. This working with layering materials on canvas became more evident throughout his paintings and "woodscapes".
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Aix en Provence 1996
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7 3/4"x 6" Etching on paper
This is the artist's most favorite place in Aix en Provence France. In 1994 he had been nationally selected to study at the Marchutz School of Fine Art in the south of France. The school advocates study from nature and study from the masters in which J Lawrence Abrams has carried with him throughout his years of creating his works of art. He lived in the small town of Pont De Larc, where Cezzanne lived and painted his lavender fields. For, JL Abrams, this time of study and experiences have life long influences pertinent to his artworks particularly evident in his paintings of nature. This etching displays how the late afternoon light captures the warmth of the crowd gathering. The light is what exhilarated the artist. This etching displays how the light creates a composition by the relationship between the figures and their shadows, a natural occurrence in nature.
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Gorge-ous 1994
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28 1/4"x 34 1/4" Wood
The play on words is exactly where the artist moved from NYC to the foothills of the Allegheny mountains with the purpose of returning to nature and returning to his 'woodscapes'. This time he built the layers beginning with the distant trees, then the rock formations leading an open path for the viewer to climb though. The closest foreground rocks created a relief to measure 10 inches off the panel base. The artist was so intrigued by the sheer size of these rock formations that hovered 60 feet above him, but once again it was the light that caught these formations as they jutted outward that created this magnificence.
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Key House 1992
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This work is a study of nature and the effects and attributes it is given by the amazing light of Key West. This painting is split into two compositional pieces. One half holds to ,a strict geometric composition of squares and rectangles accompanied with a motif of ostinato, circular gingerbread lattice work. The other half carries through with circular, colorful lace-like foliage. It is this special 'key light' that almost obliterates any color with the support beams, railings and lattice work while creating the separation of color in the foliage. The artist was so intrigued with this 'key light' that he moved to Key West where he continued his study of its effects on nature throughout his paintings.
