Artist Pages: Robert Stark

Version One:

I think Robert Stark did a great job with the color on his projects. In Red Dory, one of his paintings, the beautiful transitions from sea to sky really caught my eye. In addition, the small lines he made to suggest distant ships or birds really brought the piece together.

Version Two:

I really connected with Robert Stark as an artist. His use of the color blue throughout his paintings had a calming vibe that drew me into each of his works of art. The way, and the things, he paints present a tranquil mood for his audience; so as a person who needs some calamity in the chaos that is my life, I was instantly interested to learn more about Robert Stark. One of my favorite things about Stark's work was his smooth transitions. I love to have paintings that flow, and all of Stark's paintings do just that. Not only do they flow between values, but they also flow between sky and sea. By studying Stark, I learned the importance of color values and how hard it can be to transition between values without an object becoming flat or a solid color. Throughout this oil pastel, I felt calm and free because no matter how badly I messed up everything could be fixed through blending and layering and if everything wasn't perfect it didn't matter because, as a luminist and expressionist painter, Robert Stark didn't try to be perfect either.