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Charley and Edie spent their honeymoon traveling the country, mainly in the west and south, being able to do so because of the
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Whereas, Charley Harper's friendship and mentorship of graphic artist Todd Oldham have inspired the
Contemporary Arts Center to exhibit works pairing Cincinnati's mid-century modernist pioneers and contemporary peers in a 15-month exhibition entitled "Graphic Content: Contemporary and Modern/Art and
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Cincinnati wildlife artist Charley Harper, 84, died Sunday. He had been battling pneumonia off and on for the past few months, said son, Brett. Harper was born in West Virginia in 1922. He arrived in Cincinnati to attend the Art Academy of Cincinnati and never left. He met wife, Edie, also an
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Charley Harper's work as "a marvel, brilliant in a way I had never seen before," possessing a "lyrically joyous style," "a remarkable and exquisite color sense" and writes that "Charley's inspired yet the accurate color sense is undeniable, and when combined with the
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wrote of Harper, "Charley's inspired yet the accurate color sense is undeniable, and when combined with the precision he exacts on rendering only the most important details, one is always left with a sense of awe." Charley, on numerous examples, also went outside the medium of graphic art and
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I don't think there was much resistance to the way I simplified things. I think everybody understood that. Some people liked it and others didn't care for it. There's some who want to count all the feathers in the wings and then others who never think about counting the feathers, like me.
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in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.
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and countless other developments in Modern art and science. His style distilled and simplified complex organisms and natural subjects, yet they are often arranged in a complex fashion. On the subject of his simplified forms, Harper noted:
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In a style he called "minimal realism", Charley Harper captured the essence of his subjects with the fewest possible visual elements. When asked to describe his unique visual style, Charley responded:
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Whereas, the brilliantly rich, colorful paintings, prints, and illustrations made by artist
Charley Harper have delighted Cincinnatians and art lovers around the world since the 1940s; and
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for a commercial firm before working on his own. He and his wife worked out of their
Roselawn and Finneytown homes, and later, with their only child Brett Harper, formed Harper Studios.
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Charley Harper's vision of "protecting and preserving nature;" and
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Charley Harper's simplified, beautiful imagery and his visionary imagination; and
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In 2003, the Sharonville Fine Arts Council awarded Harper a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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