tech<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.usmre.com/5739/blog/Chachi.jpg" style="width: 288px; height: 371px;"></p> <p>Just in time for the holidays, <a href="http://www.kmrarts.com/">KMR Arts</a> presents Beth Rundquist, an internationally recognized portrait and landscape painter, who has created a specialty niche with her Silhouettes body of work. Beth will be at KMR Arts to exhibit her work and accept commissions Friday, December 4, from 10-5pm and Saturday, December 5, from 10- 5pm. The Silhouettes are a fab, fresh, modern take on the Victorian cutout silhouette. Rundquist&rsquo;s pieces are available in modern color combinations: think turquoise blue on chocolate brown, acid green on lemon yellow, or hot pink on pale lavender...They are available in a range of sizes from 8 x 8 inches to 24 x 24 inches.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.usmre.com/5739/blog/Pair.jpg" style="width: 288px; height: 322px;"></p> <p><br> McCarver Root says, &ldquo;When I saw Beth&rsquo;s work at a friend&rsquo;s house, I was enchanted by these groovy, modern interpretations of the Victorian silhouette. Beth&rsquo;s art is personal yet it reaches beyond portraiture.&rdquo;</p> <p>In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, silhouettes became popular as cheap, quick ways of capturing likenesses. Often created by amateurs, especially women, they are now known as sentimental keepsakes of the Victorian variety, sweet mementos of anonymous everyday people from the past memorialized in ink, paint, or cut paper, and even painted onto porcelain. In the 19th century a silhouette artist was often times a woman, an amateur, who wanted to create a souvenir of her beloved. Pliny the Elder, writing around the 1st century AD, told the story of a 5th century Corinthian girl, Dibutade, who traced her lover&#39;s shadow, cast by candlelight, because he was leaving on a journey and she wanted to keep his image with her.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.usmre.com/5739/blog/Charlotte.jpg" style="width: 252px; height: 351px;"><br> &nbsp;</p> <p>Another modern artist whose work incorporates the silhouette is Kara Walker. Walker&rsquo;s rich, beautiful and disturbing work depicts silhouetted scenes addressing the historical legacy of violence, mistreatment and revenge between blacks and whites. Using the silhouette, a black-and-white medium popular during the era of 19th century American slavery, Walker brilliantly subverts the sweetness of the form, updating it into something too urgent and incisive to be anything but modern.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.usmre.com/5739/blog/aka%20silh.jpg" style="width: 332px; height: 300px;"></p> <p><br> Appealing to both the established collector and the first time buyer, <a href="http://www.kmrarts.com/">KMR Arts</a> continues to celebrate photography. Kathy McCarver Root is a photography dealer, working with individual and corporate clients to purchase and install fine art photography. McCarver Root gained her experience over two decades while working as a photography editor for books (Lillian Bassman, Bulfinch, Weekend Retreats, Rizzoli) and prestigious magazines (Esquire, US Weekly, and InStyle). Kathryn McCarver Root named one of Litchfield County&rsquo;s 50 Most Influential People by Litchfield Magazine. For more information, call: (860) 868-7533, email: info@kmrarts.com or visit their website by clicking on the link <a href="http://www.kmrarts.com/">here</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>
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