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Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage

Creator: Mitchell Funk
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
Shipping is $100. Sometimes the simplest images are the most complex. Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage is more than a bird portrait. It's a portrait of a bird as a living work of abstract art. The photographers captures the bird in the three-quarter view. This is the most flattering angle to view the face and the eye-catching crest feathers that resemble the helmet of a Roman centurion, while the Peacock displays to attract a Peahen.
Signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed, printed later .
Mitchell Funk brings the compositional precision of studio photography to street photography.
Unlike most street photographers, Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian.
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 1970 he participated in one the first " Color Photography" shows at a major museum. Brooklyn Museum, show "Images en Couleur" . 1971 Included he was included in the visionary book "Frontiers of Photography" Time Life. Color ! American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum. He has had more than 50 Photography Magazine Covers and has had covers on Newsweek, Fortune, New York Magazine and Life Magazine among others

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States
Period:	2000-2021
Materials:	Inkjet Archival Print
Condition:	New.
Creation Date:	2002
Styles / Movements:	Color Field, Abstract Expressionism, Expressionism
Incollect Reference #:	422386

Dimensions

W.	60 in;	H.	40 in;
W.	152.4 cm;	H.	101.6 cm;

Message from Seller:

You'll find an eclectic group of art works at Robert Funk Fine Art. 45 years of experience has shaped Director Robert Funk's multi-perspective approach to presenting art. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with great teachers such as first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish. In Graduate School he worked with famed critic E.C. Goossen and went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director, and Art Collector.