Graf Zeppelin and the Chrysler Building
The "Glitch" project was begun during the Covid-19 lockdowns. The concept is similar to my "Reflejo Dos -Break on Through" painting. With "Glitch" the Graf Zeppelin is once again passing through a time portal into the 21st century but as the colour palette and the form and segmentation of the zeppelin suggest, all is not right. There is a glitch somewhere in the system and the anomaly or anomalies have resulted in inversion of the colour wheel and inability of the zeppelin to rematerialize properly. The anthropomorphic looking windows on various floors hint at the possibility that the Chrysler Building is more than simply an inanimate object.
"Glitch"
"Glitch" Open Edition Canvas Giclée Print. Image size: 18"x22"
The Graf Zeppelin and the Chrysler Building.
The Graf Zeppelin and the Chrysler Building.
$
170.00
Graf Zeppelin over Montevideo
"Reflejo Dos - Break on Through"
Oil on Canvas 34" x 40"
© Troy White 2012 FOR SALE
For canvas prints click here.
After completing "Springtime for Hitler and Germany" it was time to complete the remodeling of my studio which meant installing proper lights and painting it inside and out. Finally in April 2009 I was able to start some sketches for a few ideas I had been considering for some time. The first to be sketched onto canvas was "Reflejo Dos / Break on Through". It is a surrealistic project in which the viewer sees the past reflected in a modern glass edifice in downtown Montevideo. The idea came to me when I saw a 100 plus year old building reflected in the Santander Bank building in la Cuidad Vieja on la Aveneda 18 de Julio next to la Plaza del Entrevero.
Oil on Canvas 34" x 40"
© Troy White 2012 FOR SALE
For canvas prints click here.
After completing "Springtime for Hitler and Germany" it was time to complete the remodeling of my studio which meant installing proper lights and painting it inside and out. Finally in April 2009 I was able to start some sketches for a few ideas I had been considering for some time. The first to be sketched onto canvas was "Reflejo Dos / Break on Through". It is a surrealistic project in which the viewer sees the past reflected in a modern glass edifice in downtown Montevideo. The idea came to me when I saw a 100 plus year old building reflected in the Santander Bank building in la Cuidad Vieja on la Aveneda 18 de Julio next to la Plaza del Entrevero.
Reflejo Dos - Break on Through!
Open Edition Canvas GicléePrint. Image size: 17"x20"
In this surrealistic painting the viewer sees the past reflected in a modern glass edifice in downtown Montevideo.
$
170.00
Sobre Palacio Lapido
"Sobre Palacio Lapido"
Oil on Canvas 34" x 30"
© Troy White 2018
The Graf Zeppelin's visit to Montevideo in 1934 is well documented photographically. There are many photos of it over the city, Rio de la Plata and alongside Montevideo's most famous building the Palacio Salvo which is located on the corner of the Plaza Independencia. Roughly 650 feet away from Palacio Salvo along Avenida 18 de Julio stands the majestic Palacio Lapido which was completed in 1933. The Palacio Lapido is considered to be one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in South America. I decided to paint "Sobre el Palacio Lapido" while working on my surrealistic time warp painting of the Graf Zeppelin "Reflejo Dos - Break on Through", which was completed in 2012. Although no photos exist of the Graf Zeppelin with the Palacio Lapido the Zeppelin was at least 125 feet longer than the distance between the two buildings and would certainly have passed over the Palacio Lapido on it's passage down 18 de Julio. For the painting I decided on a simple, graphic composition that would rotate beautifully and effectively, keeping in mind the travel posters of the 1920s and '30s. "Sobre el Palacio Lapido" is oil on canvas and measures 24" x 30".
Oil on Canvas 34" x 30"
© Troy White 2018
The Graf Zeppelin's visit to Montevideo in 1934 is well documented photographically. There are many photos of it over the city, Rio de la Plata and alongside Montevideo's most famous building the Palacio Salvo which is located on the corner of the Plaza Independencia. Roughly 650 feet away from Palacio Salvo along Avenida 18 de Julio stands the majestic Palacio Lapido which was completed in 1933. The Palacio Lapido is considered to be one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in South America. I decided to paint "Sobre el Palacio Lapido" while working on my surrealistic time warp painting of the Graf Zeppelin "Reflejo Dos - Break on Through", which was completed in 2012. Although no photos exist of the Graf Zeppelin with the Palacio Lapido the Zeppelin was at least 125 feet longer than the distance between the two buildings and would certainly have passed over the Palacio Lapido on it's passage down 18 de Julio. For the painting I decided on a simple, graphic composition that would rotate beautifully and effectively, keeping in mind the travel posters of the 1920s and '30s. "Sobre el Palacio Lapido" is oil on canvas and measures 24" x 30".
Sobre Palacio Lapido
"Sobre Palacio Lapido" Open Edition Canvas Giclée Print. Image size: 16"x20" During the Graf Zeppelin's visit to Montevideo in 1934 it passed directly over the Palacio Lapido,one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in South America.
$
150.00
