On several occasions in
this blog and on my facebook page, the Art of William Renzulli, I have posted
images of work I have done on this portfolio. My plan is to spend the first 6 to 8 moths of this year
creating the artwork for a hardcover book to be published and available this
fall.
This project basically
brings me full circle, back to where my art started, in the streets of
Wilmington Delaware. I fell in
love with the colors and texture of the gritty urban landscape and hidden
memories that could only be imagined in the wide-ranging architecture,
streetscapes, and markets. In 1985
I published a book of drawings and paintings celebrating Wilmington. After almost 11 years in Paducah, I feel
the need to “celebrate” Paducah, and taking advantage of technology that was
not available in 1985, I can share with you the process of making this idea a
reality.
This will not a book
about Paducah’s history - social, architectural, or commercial, but it will be
about Paducah’s “eye candy”, at least to my eyes. It will a book to look at, not a book to read. It is a book about the city we see
everyday, the mundane and the elegant, the new and the old. It is a book where even the refuse can
be a thing of beauty.
I have created many
paintings of the Paducah cityscape in the years I have been here, and several
of them will appear in this portfolio, but fo the most part, the art will be
new, created over a period of 6-8 months.
The first, and ongoing
task, has been to grab the camera and hit the streets, on foot or in car,
exploring parts of the city I have never visited before. (I can’t work the streets like I did 35
years ago.) Amost all of the artwork will be done in the comfort of my studio...another nod to my age.
There is some amazing architecture tucked away off the beaten paths in the city.
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