Shades of Blue 46 Robert Kushner1

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Blue
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Red Geranium,
2016
Robert Kushner Sweet peas
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Blue Hibiscus,
2017
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Robert Kushner Honeysuckle 2014
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Cactus garden
dusk 2014
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Midnight in the
Huntington Library Cactus Garden 2014
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949)
Rudbeekia, 2017
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Bellflower, 2014
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Phlox, 2014
Blue Succulents, 2014
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) O Aloe, O
Maillol, 2014
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949)
Camelia Spectre
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949)
Camellia branch
After the dance - Nasher Museum of Art at Duke
University
Untitled 2008
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Moonlight 2017
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) For Jane- You
Always Made Blue Seem So Easy, 2015
Robert Kushner - Bardo, 2016
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Robert Kushner - Blue Lily, 2019
Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Cineraria
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Robert Kushner
Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Everest
Arabesque 2008
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Red amarylis
Gardens of Earthly Delights
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Cyclamen
Liftoff, 2000
White cyclamen I 1999
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) A Visit to
Delft - Blue and White,2017
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Calla Lillies
and Roses 2018
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Delphinium
Sentinel 2004
Early Autumn 1992
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Red Dahlias-Blue
Ground
Red Cyclamen 1998

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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Flaming
Purissima 2008
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Klimt in Kyoto
1995
Gathering of Five Gladiolas Mandala
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Autumn
Sunflower, 2018
Agapanthus
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949)
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Arcadian Walk
(right) 1994 Arcadian Walk (left)
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Leucojum Quilt
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Three King Alfreds, 2016
Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Salome 2014
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Morning Glories II 2007 Red
Dahlias and Monarda 2005
Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Morning Glories
2007
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Robert Kushner (American, 1949) Nelumbo et
Nymphaea 2008
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Robert Kushner, who emerged in the early 1970s as
a performance artist, is well known for his
richly textured and opulent paintings of flowers,
which have been his main concentration since the
late 1980s. Through his travels, Kushner has
taken motifs and methods from non-Western
decorative arts, such as textiles and carpets
from Central Asia, and Japanese folding screens,
to create a foundation for his interpretive
botanicals. Also, from his work as a carpet
restorer for the Artweave Gallery at the start of
his career, Kushner has written, the geometric
backgrounds that create the foundation of his
intensely decorative works are based not on the
modernist grid but on the warp and weft of the
carpets he repaired. Handling the rare
embroidered silk suzanis that the gallery
specialized in also prompted a further
exploration of Islamic art and design, elements
of which can be detected within the backgrounds
for the floral motifs that occupy the topmost
layers of the works. The critic Amy Goldin, an
early champion of PD, suggested that pattern is
found more universally in art than are images
that pattern is to pictorial description as
poetry is to prose. This approach to art making,
which has been Kushners signature from the
outset, only gets more intensely expressive with
time. The artist says, Gold leaf made its way
into my paintings, and my subject matter began to
shift from figures to flowers and plant
forms...Japanese influences slumbered and meshed
with other sources for a few years. However, as a
counterbalance, Matisse, Bonnard, Klimt, O'Keefe
and Demuth remained (and still remain) important
sources for me.
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