Two Conchs, One Crab

Two Conchs, One CrabTwo Conchs, One Crab is an original piece of art by Dora Atwater Millikin. This framed oil painting depicts a still life of two conch shells and one horseshoe crab. Reminiscent of a coastal beach scene, the painting includes tones of blue, brown and purple. Dora is a Massachusetts based artist. Measurements: 14 x 18. 5. Materials Oil on Linen About the Artist Dora Atwater Millikins work is about paint. It is about composition and it is about her

Two Conchs, One Crab is an original piece of art by Dora Atwater Millikin.  This framed oil painting depicts a still life of two conch shells and one horseshoe crab.  Reminiscent of a coastal beach scene, the painting includes tones of blue, brown and purple.  Dora is a Massachusetts based artist.  Measurements: 14” x 18.5”.

Materials

Oil on Linen

About the Artist

Dora Atwater Millikin’s work is about paint. It is about composition and it is about her struggle with color. She enjoys rendering potentially un-picturesque motifs and everyday objects and scenes in her life.  Using flat patterns and contrasting solid planes of color, she is always searching for ways to deliver the unexpected to her viewer. She has been working on a technique that makes the viewer question: Which is more important the object or the environment in which it sits? 

Dora is most interested in the actual properties of paint as a material and how it can create movement on and across my picture plane. This type of painting centers on the medium of paint itself and therefore unites idea with technique. Her intent is to interlock image with paint so that paint becomes the image and vice versa. In places, her paint can take on a sense of shabby, disorderly chaos while in other places it can take on a sense of luscious richness. At any rate, the idea is to produce a certain and somewhat indefinable emotional command.

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