Hawaii Artist Margaret Stanton blends expressive brushwork, vibrant colors and exotic influences to create bright, impressionistic island seascapes and other sunny, tropical-themed paintings. This is the first in a series of seascapes developed for brilliant color in tropical Hawaii. This place is along the Red Road in Puna on the Big Island and is created with a strong Blue Rider influence
"Red Road"
Artist: Margaret Stanton
Original acylic on canvas
16 x 20 in
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8 x 10 in: $90 
16 x 20 in: $190
Embellished Print:
16 x 20 in: $695
"Red Road" 2003 acrylic 16x20"
This piece is the first in an new series of paintings and a new focus for me. I recognized that color would have to be used as an expressive medium in its own right if I were to break with traditional conventions of representation. With "Red Road" I was more concerned with creating a balance between yellow, red and blue than creating a true vehicle for true appearances. I was greatly influenced by the Blue Rider Exhibit in Munich, Germany.
In a famous letter to Macke, written in 1910, Franz Marc explained, "Blue is the male
principle, austere and spiritual. Yellow is the female principle, bright and sensual. Red is matter brutal and heavy, the color which the other two have to fight to overcome. For example, if you mix the serious, spiritual blue with red, you intensify the blue to the color
of an unbearable sadness, and the conciliatory yellow, which is the compliment to violet, becomes indispensable. If you mix red and yellow to make orange, you give the passive feminine yellow a shrewish sensual power, so that the cool, spiritual blue becomes
indispensable - the blue of the man immediately and automatically aligns itself with orange: the two colors love each other. Blue and orange, a thoroughly festive sound. If you then use blue and yellow to make green, you bring red matter, the 'earth', to life, but as a
painter she always senses a difference here: with green you can never quite surppress the eternal brute materiality of red. . . Blue (the sky) and yellow (the sun) have to come to the aid of the green in order to silence matter.
This painting was in the newspaper in December 2005 while I was being featured at the Harbor Gallery at Kawaihai. At the reception I met a couple who drove over from Puna to see it. They said that it was the scene from in front of their home. They loved it! Unfortunately for them, so did a designer in California who had already purchased it.
