Gus Harper is an abstract artist known for his citrus-scapes and murals featuring fruits and vegetables. His style uses fading lines and minimal realism with intensified shadows. He draws inspiration from travels around the world. The author particularly appreciates Harper's abstract works involving fruits and animals, with lines that morph into the background. However, some of Harper's works using random imagery leave the author confused. Harper's focus on light and geometric shapes lends to his unique style. His works remind the author of potter Kate Malone, who also features fruits in decorative yet functional pieces using bright colors.
Gus Harper is an abstract artist known for his citrus-scapes and murals featuring fruits and vegetables. His style uses fading lines and minimal realism with intensified shadows. He draws inspiration from travels around the world. The author particularly appreciates Harper's abstract works involving fruits and animals, with lines that morph into the background. However, some of Harper's works using random imagery leave the author confused. Harper's focus on light and geometric shapes lends to his unique style. His works remind the author of potter Kate Malone, who also features fruits in decorative yet functional pieces using bright colors.
Gus Harper is an abstract artist known for his citrus-scapes and murals featuring fruits and vegetables. His style uses fading lines and minimal realism with intensified shadows. He draws inspiration from travels around the world. The author particularly appreciates Harper's abstract works involving fruits and animals, with lines that morph into the background. However, some of Harper's works using random imagery leave the author confused. Harper's focus on light and geometric shapes lends to his unique style. His works remind the author of potter Kate Malone, who also features fruits in decorative yet functional pieces using bright colors.
Gus Harper is an abstract artist known for his citrus-scapes and murals featuring fruits and vegetables. His style uses fading lines and minimal realism with intensified shadows. He draws inspiration from travels around the world. The author particularly appreciates Harper's abstract works involving fruits and animals, with lines that morph into the background. However, some of Harper's works using random imagery leave the author confused. Harper's focus on light and geometric shapes lends to his unique style. His works remind the author of potter Kate Malone, who also features fruits in decorative yet functional pieces using bright colors.
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I love and enjoy doing art on fruits; that is why for my transcription I will be
doing a part of one of Gus Harpers’ ‘citrus-scapes’. His style of lines fading to the edge of the canvas is particularly pleasing to look at for me as well. However, sometimes I find pieces that are spread over a few square canvases to drain out the lines. He tends to do roses in the ‘grid’ style and I think these are actually really effective as it follows a row of blue roses surrounded by squares of red roses. This stark contrast to the rest of the image provides a great centre of attention
Gus Harper does not really do realism and most of his pieces contain just enough shading to show a narrow field of depth. This is his own style though and it is evident through his vast amount of techniques he uses he still falls back on minimal realism and shading: often intensifying shadows where he wants certain things to pop. Where he lacks in realism he makes up for in detail – his massive murals contain so much to absorb that you can not just take a single glance. A lot of surrealist imagery is ‘hidden’ into the background and sometimes the foreground as well, in turn his wall-art (Put in real world. Gus Harper Gus Harper, son of Fielden Harper, was born and raised in Santa Monica, California. He sold his first painting at age 17 where he realized his passion for abstract forms. This led him down an 18 year path of professional artistry and discovery. Gus Harper travels around the world producing murals and artworks based on the experiences and cultures he picked up in those countries. These include: Nepal, Malaysia, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Mexico. However it is this bond with the local people that really gave him the joy and inspiration he need to make a ‘set’ of designs in that style.
I particularly appreciated his abstract work involving fruit
and animals; the lines that morph into the background provide a great focal point to admire. His Sobu/Grid series and his ongoing works involving fruits or vegetables in a macro manner, is so well lit that you can almost taste the citrusy flavour by looking at the surface of the fruits. He tends to use warm hues of yellow to red in his works however he is never limited to this and uses a diverse range of methods and techniques in his work. Pieces by him are mostly realism that morph into fictional ideas and concepts. This is why I chose him to study as his style provides a clash of both realism beauty and abstract beauty. However some works do not resonate with me as strongly, such as ‘Standing On The Shoulders of Giants, which comes from the ‘Minor Identity Crisis’ selection of works. In fact, many of these works I have a disliking to, as his use of colour and supposedly random imagery leaves me rather confused. He is involved in the visual culture movement (or VCM) where many different views and beliefs are portrayed through murals. Jean Michel Basquiat (VCM Haiti)
Gus Harper (VCM Sri Lanka)
Gus Harper’s work has inspired me to add an air of fantasy
into my natural forms to make the piece more unique and more easily separate the foreground and the background. His focus on light and its refractions also lend a hand to his particular style: this is typically made up of large geometric shapes (his smallest pieces are around the size of an adult) surrounded by lines or text.
Gus Harper reminds me of another artist, this time in the
world of pottery; Kate Malone. Both Harper and Malone make work based around fruits however Kate’s are multipurpose and serve as both a decorative art piece Kate Malone and a plain household item such as a kettle. Both Harper and Malone use bright saturated colours to add indefinite pop to their works which are stark in contrast next to their more monochromatic works. Both, although in different mediums, do not have any real set designs and both feel free to explore creatively
