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Blue and Gold, Flowing Catherine
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Over the
years Parker's work has grown increasingly abstract. Forms have become
simpler, brush strokes have become bolder, and colors have become more intuitive.
An omnipresent moon in her night paintings is haunting in the same way that
Edvard Munch's reflected moon dominates The Dance of Life . . .
Nancy
Weekly, Theme and Variations: In
Parkers capable hands, landscape elements--trees,
flowers, cliffs, clouds, suns, moons, water and birds--are highly condensed
things that suggest a whole imaginative spectrum of shifting and intertwining
metaphors. As Parker moves toward greater abstraction, it is a symbolic
language that has grown remarkably in its ability to bridge between observed
phenomena and the associative power of raw shape.
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