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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

MAD HATTER LOLLIPOP, 7"x5" (SOLD!)


SOLD TO ART COLLECTOR FROM COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA

WHITE VASE WITH CHERRIES 5X7" (SOLD!)


ART COLLECTOR FROM STANTON, CALIFORNIA

SAPPHIRE VASE WITH TANGERINE (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM WOODLAND HILLS, CALIFORNIA

Monday, October 30, 2006

LAVENDER VASE WITH LEMON 5x7" (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM WOODLAND HILLS, CALIFORNIA

TEAL TEACUP & SAUCER 5X7" (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

Saturday, October 28, 2006

EMERALD RING 5X7" (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM STANTON, CALIFORNIA

Friday, October 27, 2006

REESE'S peanut butter cups HERSHEY, 7x5", Oil, Hall Groat II (SOLD !)

PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM REDDING, CALIFORNIA

Thursday, October 26, 2006

BURGUNDY VASE 5x7", Oil (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM LARIMIE, WYOMING

SKITTLES CANDY, 5"x7", Oil, (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM ROCKLIN, CALIFORNIA

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

ONIONS IN GOLD BOWL 10 x 8"(SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM RAGLEY, LOUISIANA

Monday, October 23, 2006

RAILROAD CONDUCTOR'S POCKET WATCH #2, 7"x 5", Oil (SOLD !)


PURCHASED BY COLLECTOR FROM NORRKOPING, SWEDEN

Sunday, October 22, 2006

SAXOPHONE 15"x 6" Oil on Masonite (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM STANTON, CALIFORNIA
I've been told by several artists that this particular piece appears to be evocotive of the 19th century aesthetic ideal: Edgar Degas. The saxophone belongs to my father-in-law who performed with it during his younger years. For those of you who are artists and are studying this work, the trick to this aesthetic sensibility is to make the viewer believe that they seeing lots of detail, but in actuality they are merely seeing atmospheric, textural brushstrokes and scumbles. --Mutiplicity within simplicty is the key to this artistic paradigm. --Hall Groat II

Saturday, October 21, 2006

VINTAGE BOX BOX CAMERA 5x7", (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY COLLECTOR FROM TIGARD, OREGON

Friday, October 20, 2006

CLARINET, 14" x 4", Oil (SOLD!)

PURCHASED BY COLLECTOR FROM RAGLEY, LOUISIANA

DOT CANDY 7"x 5", Oil (SOLD!)

PURCHASE BY ART COLLECTOR FROM COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA

Thursday, October 19, 2006

CHERRY PIE , OIL, 5 x 7" (SOLD!)


Please take a moment to view the documentary film on this painting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3aHe95sBLE
PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM MAITLAND, FLORIDA

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

CARMINE VASE WITH STRAWBERRIES, 5x7", Oil, (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Flute, 4-3/4"x14", Oil, (SOLD!!)

PURCHASED BY COLLECTOR FROM RAGLEY, LOUISIANA
Many of you have expressed an interest in learning more about the long history of painting in order to better understand what you have collected. I’d like everyone to ponder the following notion, which happens to be the fundamental difference between what many define as “realism, hyper-realism, or photo-realism,” and “naturalism or natural realism.” My work is connected with “natural realism.” In hyper-photo realism the artist strives to replicate the photograph, which presents a facsimile of a moment in time. In “natural realism” the painter strives to represent the particular “ambience or mood” of an actual physical space before them, hence the element of time is in flux. We are part of this continuum. As humans we do not have the ability to see like machines. When we gaze at a motif a single object typically becomes the focus, and our peripheral vision becomes fuzzy and soft. This characteristic is the touchstone of most representational painting that preceded the 20th century.

In my recent painting of the flute seen above, I’m striving to represent not only the innate beauty of this icon of music, but also how we experience “time in flux as humans.”
-Hall Groat II, October 18, 2006

Monday, October 16, 2006

TRUMPET, 14"x4-3/4", Oil (SOLD !)


PURCHASED BY COLLECTOR FROM RAGLEY, LOUISIANA

Sunday, October 15, 2006

RUBY VASE WITH CHERRIES, 5x7", Oil, (SOLD !)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Friday, October 13, 2006

GOLD VASE WITH GRAPES, 10x8", Oil (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM GLENDALE, ARIZONA

Thursday, October 12, 2006

TEAPOT WITH PEACH & PLUM, 10x8", Oil, (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM FORESTVILLE, CALIFORNIA

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

BRANDI, 10"x8", Oil on canvas (SOLD!)

BRANDI
PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM CLOVIS, CALIFORNIA

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

APPLES IN A BOWL, 8X10", HALL GROAT II (SOLD !)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA

Monday, October 09, 2006

EGGS ON A PLATE, 8X10", HALL GROAT II (SOLD !!!)

PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM SOUTH HAMILTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Saturday, October 07, 2006

VERMILION VASE WITH PLUM & PEACH, 5x7", Oil Hall Groat II, (SOLD !)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM HERCULES, CALIFORNIA

In this painting I'm working to get the "paint" to define itself and subject at the same time. This notion is the touchstone of painting from the past. The paint appears sexy, sassy and sensual, and I'm happy about this. The world is in flux, we do not see edges like cameras do, therefore, paint through the form, destroy edges, and rebuild. This is the way we see. Paint a "box of air."
Vermeer wanted to heighten the way we see as humans--it was the camera obscura that made this possible.

Friday, October 06, 2006

THE RAILROAD MAN'S POCKET WATCH, 7x5", Oil, (SOLD!!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Please take a few minutes to view the documentary film relating to the painting of this traditional icon stemming from the western world at this link:

Thursday, October 05, 2006

SCARLET VASE WITH PLUMS__5x7", Oil (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM LITTLE NECK, NEW YORK
It was while at Brooklyn College in 1991, that contemporary artist, John Walker, kept repeating to me: "Groat, you need to learn how to touch the canvas with sensitivity, caress the paint sensitively. Study the work of John Constable, and notice how he paints a "box of air"...there's nothing self-conscious about the manner in which he "touches the surface with the brush" ...At arms length, the painting must dissolve into pure abstraction. For this is the touchstone of great painting, study Rembrandt, Titian, Goya, Turner...painting is about the "mark" of the arist. The "mark" of the artist is what is sublime, the motion of the brush is what has the capacity to transcend the objective world, and move into what is spiritual. At this point in history, Antonio Lopez Garcia is one artist that comes to mind. He has this gift. Lucian Freud also has it.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

INDIGO VASE WITH LEMON, 10"x 8" (SOLD!!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM NEWTON, MASSACHUSETS

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

GUM BALLS, Oil, 7x5" (SOLD !)

PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA

Please take a moment to view the documentary film relating to this painting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx7mD3TdIJM

Monday, October 02, 2006

THREE EGGS ON BLUE CLOTH _(SEE VIDEO LINK!)_OIL_Hall Groat II (SOLD!!!)



PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM VERO BEACH, FLORIDA
Please take a moment to view the "How To" documentary film at youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubKCLmQ7tIw

Sunday, October 01, 2006

RED BARTLETT PEAR, 7x5", OIL, Hall Groat II (SOLD!!)

PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA
This is the second Red Bartlett Pear I've painted--sold the first one. I enjoy both the minimalist aspect of a single form in shallow space, and the particular form of pears. Each one possesses its own unique characteristics, just as we do as humans.

JAFFREE BALLET SLIPPERS #3, 8x10", OIL, Hall Groat II (SOLD !)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS