Purvis Young Paintings on a Toilet Seat! Very UNIQUE!!! Start Price USD 200.00 Current Price USD 200.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, May 13, 2008 End Time Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Location Lookout Mountain, Tennessee See more about 'Purvis Young Paintings on a Toilet Seat! Very UNIQUE!!!' Description This is one of the most unique Purvis pieces I have ever had the pleasure to view. Painted on the top and under the lid of an old toilet seat. This piece demonstrates the variability of Purvis and his work. Dimensions are approxiamately 25" by 14". Purvis Young is among the most exciting and important self-taught artists to have emerged in the 1980’s.  Meeting Purvis Young, one cannot help but be impressed by his deep heart-felt concern for his community and acquaintances.  The abundance of pregnant women populating the neighborhood, the hustle-and-bustle chaos of people in the street, the infusion of boat people, the trucks passing up above on the elevated interstate, funerals, basketball games and crying faces populate his oeuvre.  His materials tend to be the detritus or trash found in the streets – old books and ledgers, discarded paper, cardboard and wood, and smashed doors and mirrors, to mention but a few of Young’s “supports.”  Not only are his images about the neighborhood, but the materials come from it as well.   This “tired” and worn material has an emotional energy that reinforces the themes of his work.  And his painterly style coupled with robust, sweeping markings lends an aura of tumult, drive, preoccupation and feeling.  Young’s artistic genius is, in part, the non-specific nature of his scenes; simplified to essentials, he presents universal situations.  His figures are virtually abstract, reduced to long Franz Kline-like brushstrokes topped with a dot, suggesting body and head.  The meaning resides in the power of the marks, and not in any details.  Even Young’s homemade “frames” function less as utilitarian frame, than as a material with a real past that metaphorically lends energy, humanity and life to the painted image. E-mail me with any questions. Place a Bid!