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| William Christine, born in 1954, is a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania landscape watercolorist who has had to struggle to find himself as an artist. In his mid-thirties, he resumed the study of art at Brooklyn College, gaining his MFA degree in 1990, working with artists Lennart Anderson, Lois Dodd and David Dewey. His earlier college experience had led him to try to paint Abstract-Expressionist watercolors devoid of subject, but he was dissatisfied.
In Christine's one-man show at the Allentown Art Museum in 2003, watercolor sketches of Arizona's Grand Canyon and acrylics painted from them are exhibited. The artist searched out and found complex canyon forms in "East Rim, Evening," 12 x 16, but the small watercolor ignores the richness of color of the canyon at any time of day, settling for a monochromatic range of tans and browns.
In the six by eight foot acrylic "For Ardath," 2002, based on the watercolor, "East Rim, Morning Light," 12 x 16, there is an expressive power in the slashing conflict of canyon depths and pinnacles turned into three-dimensional, expressionist forms and nearly abstract planes and angles. Christine has created a kind of geometric symbolic language representing the canyon, his creative struggles, and the emotional travail of painting it during his mother's terminal illness.
An admirer of Vincent Van Gogh and primitive art, William Christine in his paintings contacts his deeper self, creating a kind of psychic battlefield on the canvas, directly facing his creative struggle unconfined by any self-imposed limitations.
Source:
From Watercolor Magazine Spring 2003
By Joseph C. Skrapits
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