Eclipse at the Top of the World. 24″ x 30″, Oil on Canvas, © 2017 Cedar Lee
$690
This painting shows a lone adventurer at a high vantage point, a mountainous landscape spread out below the spectacle of a total solar eclipse glowing in the sky. “On top of the world” because of the person’s perch at the tip of this giant rock jutting impossibly high into the sky.
The palette-knife-painted mountains were created with a mixture of oil paint and cold wax medium more than 1/4″ thick in some places. This texture continuing around the deep edges of the canvas gives the piece a three-dimensional impact.
The colors are powerful, saturated–yellow, magenta, deep bronze tones and purple black. The image is high-contrast, from the brilliant white of the sun’s corona around the blood red moon, to the deep black shadows in the foreground. All these things give the painting a certain raw quality, even harshness.
This harshness suits the intensity of the moment: The person is feeling the burning emotions of wonder, loneliness, fear, sadness, love and elation all at once. The person is breathing the thin air at this high elevation, witnessing a rare astronomical event from the perfect vantage point. Oh, to be a little human on this incredible Earth!
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