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Artist |
Cobble, Brian |
Caption |
South Broadway |
Collection |
TMA |
Credit Line |
Tyler Museum of Art purchased with funds donated by Betty Summers and the Byars Foundation, Dr. Harold and Eleanor Cameron, Sheryl Palmer and Bobby Fry, Dr. Jerry and Alice Parish, Myrtis D. Smith, Ken and Kim Tomio, and Anonymous |
Culture |
American |
Date |
2002 |
Description |
Photo realistic depiction of an urban landscape; a service station. South Broadway is a depiction of urban landscape, a scene so ordinary as to verge on banality - a service station, yet it is devoid of people. Cobble's pastel captures the urban landscape in a photo-realistic manner that provides it with a pleasurable, yet unsettling, significance which seems to be slightly beyond one's grasp. The technical mastery of the use of pastel is so powerful that the viewer is first overwhelmed by the realistic quality of the image, and then he is slowly lead to appreciate the artistic intention of the fore, middle and background of the work. And only after that does he start wondering why certain things are depicted in the way they are: the number of tire marks, the open door of the car, etc. There is something beyond realistic representation that points to the allegorical meaning - the artist's commentary - of our contemporary life presented masterfully in this work. Brian Cobble grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and earned a BFA from New Mexico State University and an MFA from Southern Methodist University. As a graduate student at Southern Methodist University, he was influenced by painters Roger Winter and Dan Wingren. He also attended the Skowhegan School (Skowhegan, Maine) and was twice a resident at the MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, New Hampshire). Cobble began his career as an oil painter but now works primarily in pastel. His work depicts the lonely and often barren urban and rural landscape in a photo-realistic manner. |
Dimensions |
H-20.5 L-38.13 inches |
Medium |
Pastel/Watercolor board |
Material |
Board |
Catalog Number |
2004.01 |
Title |
South Broadway |