Bo Bartlett

“"The End Of An Era", del norteamericano Bo Bartlett (n. 1965).”

Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. His paintings are well within the tradition of American realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America’s heart—its land and its people—and describes the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.

American artist Bo Bartlett’s paintings reveal a luminous world that is at once familiar and uncanny. Here, we glimpse carnivals, a lone figure riding a bicycle beside the shore, a woman in a wedding dress standing in a pink-wallpapered room, a zeppelin floating through the sky. Bartlett’s scenes have the aura of daily life, but these visions aren’t simply realist snapshots of the American experience. Instead, they possess the delicate impermanence of memories and dreams, half-remembered…

Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. His paintings are well within the tradition of American realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America’s heart—its land and its people—and describes the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.

American realist with modernist vision, the painter Bo Bartlett looks into the heart of American identity in his works, studying its land and its people.

10 days left to see the solo show at Ameringer McEnery Yohe @525w22 "The Covenant" oil on linen 48x 66 2016 Perched on a burial mound a stag protects it's young fawn. It's leg outstretched prepared to pounce or stomp to mark it's territory. The protector is unknowingly guarded by the protected. The fawn securely nestled between the father's front legs safeguards from the risk of any hunter taking aim at his father's heart.

Eyes on American realist painter Bo Bartlett. Born on December 29, 1955 in Columbus, Georgia, Bo Bartlett is an extraordinary American realist painter.

Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. His paintings are well within the tradition of American realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America’s heart—its land and its people—and describes the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.

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