Ghosts Of The Great Highway
Paintings by Robert Mars
By Robert Mars marsrob
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Category: Arts & Photography
Tags: Classic Cars, Roadside America, Route 66, Americana, Diner, Hotel, Motel, Mustang, Neon, Nova, Thunderbird
My work is a chronicle of Americana. I am determined to capture the independent aesthetic of the not-so-distant past that has been replaced by homogenized corporate culture and standardized cityscapes. Industrial design, graphic design, architecture and vintage neon all render important roles in my work.
My paintings employ layers of color, subtly collaged printed matter from the 1950’s and 1960’s, and stark, black imagery. Remote, indistinct landscapes capture the once poetic, and now nearly lost highway strips of the American past. Formerly the promise of hope and prosperity; these icons are now a sign of desperation and ruin.
As a painter I have shown in galleries in Tokyo, Munich, Portland, New York, Seattle, Aspen, Vancouver, Melbourne, Boston, and Austin.
Square 7x7 inches (18x18 cm) 26 pages
Published: May 15, 2007
