Building Landscape Gouache on Board Painting by Harry Bennett

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Stunning gouache on cardboard painting by American Artist Harry Bennett (1925 -). Early hyperrealist design featuring a church or school … Read more Stunning gouache on cardboard painting by American Artist Harry Bennett (1925 -). Early hyperrealist design featuring a church or school in the middle of nowhere in the countryside. Signed by the artist on the bottom right corner. Hyperrealism is the identical reproduction of an image in the painting, so realistic that the viewer comes to wonder whether the nature of the artistic work is a painting or a photograph. Here you could almost think the painting is a photograph.
The hyperrealist painters seek neutrality, they are not intended to denounce anything, they show the world objectively.
Open to interpretation, this enigmatic painting reminds me of the iconic scene in the movie "North by Northwest" (1959), too quiet to be true, something must happen, we just don't know yet what.
Contemporary dark wood frame with a white liner.
Measurements:
With frame: 30 in. wide (76 cm) x 20 in. high (51 cm)
Painting view: 23.5 in. wide (59.5 cm) x 13.75 in. high (35 cm). See less