Word: harnett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perspective: the arc of a hill, an angled fence, the diminishing height of trees. The viewer feels that he has actually stepped into the landscape. Porter's murals customarily covered every square inch of the wall with a rustic version of trompe 1'oeil that prefigures William Harnett and John Peto. Doorways were incorporated into his overall composition by foliage or puffs of volcanic smoke painted around them. Wood graining and knots were repeated in the horizontals of tree limbs and clusters of figures...
Next he began picking up objects and juxtaposing them with the painted canvas. His use of the object can be seen as something of a contemporary parallel to the 19th century American still-life painters Peto and Harnett, who in their trompe-ľoeil arrangements of everydayobjects anticipated many of the same concerns that preoccupied the new realists of the 1960s. One Dine's most successful "combines" is a 1962 work in which an actual lawnmower is mounted in front of the canvas. Green paint clings to the blades like bits of fresh-cut grass, while the handle guides...