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Copyright ©2014 by Barry Conner
Original Painting by Barry Conner
Acrylic on Canvas.
24in H x 36in W.
Price: $750 (SOLD)
True gallery-wrapped canvas.
Finished canvas, painted edges.
Featured in early 2016 on the Fine Art America website, in the "MINIMALISM 1 per day" artist's group, "Hope Endures" is an abstract and symbolic painting. It represents the power of hope, persisting in the midst of deep suffering or anguish.
Created as a stand-alone work, "Hope Endures" was inspired through the artist's own encouragements as sustained and experienced in Jesus Christ:
"Early one morning, I was inspired to begin work on the piece when I vividly glimpsed a part of it in my mind's eye. At that point, the inspiration was purely visual -- a mental picture of what basically became the upper-left corner. But before I'd ever had a chance to begin the painting, that day became a devastating disaster for me. I still felt that I needed to do the painting. And I began work on it later that afternoon. NOW the imagery had meaning for me. I poured myself into the work. The rough-textured mix of forms -- the turmoil and emotion expressed by the enveloping darkness, and the hard-edged deep reds. There is also the aesthetic of a stormy sea. But while these aspects of the painting were an outpouring of the 'negatives' I was experiencing and feeling, I refused to 'go dark' -- not with the overall sense conveyed through the painting, nor with my handling of the experience. There is a compound symbolism in the prominent placement and appearance of the 'starburst'. It is a small, but inextinguishable blaze of light beaming forth in defiance of oppressive and chaotic darkness. It is also an irrepressible beacon of hope reaching out to an overwhelmed and anguished soul surrounded by sorrows and hardship. And shone-forth through these rays of light are both a starburst and the appearance of a cross -- itself a profound emblem of both suffering and hope! It is a promise of goodness and triumph, forever victorious in the face of otherwise looming darkness, anguish, sorrow, and seeming defeat. And despite the very worst, HOPE ENDURES!"
-- BarryConner
(NOTE: This piece has been sold. Full-scale, archival-grade professional reproductions are also available, in a limited edition of 125, signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Please feel free to contact Barry Conner Fine Arts directly regarding these limited-edition reproductions, regarding fine-quality -- unnumbered -- full-scale or resized prints of the same piece, regarding other pieces, or to ask about commissioning new works of art. All art purchases are accompanied with an individualized and signed Artist's Certificate of Provenance.)
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