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Bananas Art Print
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Bananas art print by Xavier Francois Hussenet. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Lesson 1, the challenge for my students was to learn that bananas have a logic of structure particular to them and that in fact, drawing involves... more
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We use acid-free papers and canvases with archival inks to guarantee that your art prints last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. Paper prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting. Canvas prints include a 2.5" white border to allow for future stretching on stretcher bars.
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Art Print Reviews (21221)
Average Rating (4.64 Stars):
Terry Rosenbaum
April 25th, 2024
Here’s my two latest.
Reg Toner
April 25th, 2024
great picture and just what I was looking for
Jonathan Silverberg
April 25th, 2024
Hirshfeld's classic Marx Brothers movie poster is now on my bedroom wall alongside two of his signed lithographs.
Jonathan Silverberg
April 25th, 2024
Groucho's iconic pose is now on my bathroom wall.
Alyssa Palmer
April 25th, 2024
The print is much darker in person. It looks like an underexposed photo and hard to make out any detail on the bottom half of the print. Paper quality is good. Fast shipping.
Artist's Description
Lesson 1, the challenge for my students was to learn that bananas have a logic of structure particular to them and that in fact, drawing involves understanding what is happening in a 4th dimension, the dimension of change, each 3 dimensional mass of facets has a will of its own to change through space. So in learning to draw they were almost immediately drawn to getting the details right and always missed the will of the thrusting banana, a lovely thing not easily to be ignored. And how, after you finally got your drawing right, did you get the elusive water to espouse that logic without a second chance or lose that exquisite transparence to a muddy sort of platitudinal opaqueness? This first lesson was both the easiest and the most difficult, students had to forget decades of playing with crayons and surrender to the myriad accidents of water, buckling cotton paper and pig-headed pigments.
About Xavier Francois Hussenet
I have been drawing and painting as far back as I can remember with a child's interest gothic architecture and sweeping swaths of red taffeta. I have had only a few classes in drawing and painting. I love watercolors because I am working with water over which I rarely have any control and which constantly challenges me to adapt. Nothing can replace the brilliant luminosity of paper coming through successive washes of pigments subject to the rules of water and gravity that the artist carefully orchestrates, if he is even a little successful, into an atmospheric illusion of unparalleled clarity and enchantment. I also enjoy oils and am a great admirer of Van Gogh, so I have decided to do like him, and learn by copying the masters which...
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