Lisa Fry Harris Art

Check out my website at: http://www.wix.com/uneasylisa/lisaharris

This is a slideshow of the art I have done over the past three years. Most of the pieces are part of my private collection, but some of it I may be willing to sell... and as I continue to paint I will have more to sell.
My background music is from incompetech.com... http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

I have always loved art. Taking art classes at Purdue in the late 70's, a mostly agricultural college, the rest of the class was filling canvases with tubes of cobalt blue or cadmium red abstracts, creating their rendition of what might be a human body but unrecognizable in most cases while I labored over each individual eyelash. I was entranced by photo realism before there was a name for it and the professors chastised me with "if you WANT a photograph, TAKE a photograph".
Ok, enough... long story short, I became discouraged, and because I needed to have a roof over my head and food in my belly, I eventually put my paints away.
35 years later, I have come full circle and am painting once again, This time with some maturity and insight that I didn't have then. Maybe this is some of what the professors were trying to get me to understand; Art is not about painting every eyelash to replicate a photo ... but about expressing a feeling, a thought, sharing a part of yourself without attempts to please others, without the assumptions, without the attitudes ... and retraining the eye not to see just the technical 'details' of life, but seeing what is significant enough to paint.
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