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© Flavio Martín Morante_2012
Since the first time I saw the Port Washington "lighthouse" (actually is a pier head light now) I became fascinated with it. I walk there everytime I can or that the weather allows it, taking over there every person that comes to visit or pointing it to people that comes to the town, so I have a "visual debt" with it and I finally was able to pay it off.
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"Untitled" (Port Washington Pierhead Light, P. Washington-Wisconsin)
Acrylic painting on canvas, 30in x 40 in © Flavio Martín Morante_2012
Sadly the pier has been photographed tirelessly (even by myself) which it makes it a challenge to make an image of it, reason why I made myself to promise that if one day I would paint it in its "iconic" way, I would do it in a context that will have a reasoning behind (at least for me). That's how finally after many years I was able to do it as I said, making it as a part of a breakable triptych with the 3 lighthouses (or pier head lights) that I do like the most on the state of Wisconsin, or at least from the ones that I got the opportunity to see and walk on it. The composition of the 3 paintings is very similar, straight forward, centered and somehow distant, as if it was a typology about lighthouses on painting establishing a direct relationship between object and viewer. Nothing else.
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From right to left (from south to north)_
Port Washington, Manitowoc and Kewaunee Pierhead/Breakwater lights.
Lake Michigan, Wisconsin.
Each one a Acrylic painting on canvas, 30in x 40 in © Flavio Martín Morante_2012
Happy with the result, I am putting now the brush down for a little and I will get myself back into the darkroom.
Cheers!
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