CIRCUS Mexico ART PRINT BY ANTON HAARDT
COLOR LITHOGRAPH /EDITION 600
Price is for one signed print by Anton Haardt, Author of Mose T: A to ZSize; 8 X 10 inches
"Born in 1948 in Montgomery, Ala., Haardt studied at Washington University in St.Louis and later at the San Francisco Art Institute, from which she received her BFA degree in 1971. Haardt’s prints, drawings, collages and assemblages have been exhibited in New Orleans, Montgomery, Key West, as well as Paris and several cities in Mexico. Resulting from her travels to Central and South America, the Caribbean and North Africa, Haardt combines things seen with things imagined. Patterns from Mexican clothes might emerge later as a decorative border around a turtle. She offers us languorously flowing forms along with colorful and exotic visions that transport the viewer to a world of exciting escape."The Latin influence has been a theme in Anton Haardts work for many years . Haardt has always labored to maintain a sense of the wondrous and the magical in her work. Her art is in filled with escapism and fantasy inherent in earlier themes, but also reflects some of the somber nostalgia of her birthplace-Alabama.
Haardt’s paintings have been shown in the US and Mexico since the 1970’s when she returned from graduating from San Francisco Art Institue.She uses subtle glazing of raw umbers caressing the graceful movements and postures of her characters. Her paintings create a sense of thoughtfulness, beauty and sometimes a somber chagrin.
Haardt says that she also enjoys sketching at the Markets, searching for vibrant material for future artistic projects ---similar to the technique used by F. Scott Fitzgerald searching for materials for his novels.Haardt began painting as a child when his parents sent her for her first private art lessons to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art then only a small brick buidingon Lawrence Street where she studied with Mrs Wilkerson..
Haardt's work has a narrative quality.Over the years, Haardt has been inspired by markets like this Market of which she has made a limited edition.Haardt's work is richly patterned with textured backgrounds that pull the viewer in to see more of the intricacies of her detailed work.
The diverse influences of tropical, South American and southern folk art, combined with her own formal training at The San Fransisco Art Institute produce a unique blend of innocence and sophistication, the surreal and the mundane, intricate patterns and striking irregularities.
Anton Haardt has won awards in local and international
competition, showing in New York, France, Mexico, and Key West and in her
hometown of Montgomery.
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