THE ART OF YVETTE NEUMANN

Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
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60" X 48" X 1.5"

Throughout the phases of our lives, we stretch, we grow, we evolve and transform into new versions of ourselves.

Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
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48" X 60" X 1.5"

Life has become so complex and complicated that to achieve multiple goals with a single action is becoming part of our psychology. The added productivity of the outcome translates into a sense of achievement, satisfying on so many levels.

Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
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16" X 40" X 1.5"

Much of life involves blurring the lines between belief, desire, and longing. We don't always see the pitfalls of our choices, or acknowledge the wounds received along the way. Some choices are more treacherous than others, while others follow undisturbed, seemingly blessed pathways. In all our decisions – one thing is certain: we are only moving forward.

Oil on Canvas
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(No Framing Required)
24" X 36" X 1.5"

How often the word "I" creeps into conversation, asserting itself with casual disregard for other pronouns. This redirection toward self changes the balance of things. We focus less on what others contribute - being only partially involved in the exchange. Egotism and self-involvement can render even the most sentient of us deaf, dumb, and blind.

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Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
48" X 48" X 1.5"

Emotional upheaval foreshadows an internal storm, rife with rocks of disappointment and despair. At the center of growing distress is a moment of calm and clarity. All is not lost… this too shall pass….

Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
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48" X 48" X 1.5"

Home is more an idea in the mind than an actual place; there we find comfort and respite from our troubles, safe-haven from the pressures of the world. How exceptional when our actual homes match ideological ones...

Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
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30" X 40" X 1.5"

A life fully lived reveals a colorful character by nature. Rich in experience and layered in the memory of people, places, things, these complex, vibrant individuals - even a little unexpected at times, are every inch, original works of art.

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Sides Painted Black
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24" X 24" X 1.5"

We constantly carve out meaning from even the most ordinary things. Identity is a shape-shifting self. Though we may change greatly with time, shadows of our former selves always remain.

Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
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60" X 48" X 1.5"

Conflict is a tug-of-war exercise of ideas and point of view; as passions flare, one party's position is revealed as more unyielding than the other's, requiring concession and compromise to bridge the widening divide. The more entrenched party might claim victory in staying strong and standing firm, but the wisdom of the peacemaker exposes who truly holds the higher ground.

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40" X 30" X 1.5"

From the "nothingness", comes the existence of "everythingness", as the gathering of notions gives rise to significance and relevance. This is what it means to be alive and filled with purpose, buoyed by the belief that what we do matters and that our existence has weight in the world. All the while, death shadows the conversation.

Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
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16" X 40" X 1.5"

Circumstance deals destiny, but within each destiny are an array of choices that ultimately decide fate. Impulses too often put us on a path to the wrong outcome, but to make mindful choices requires a contemplative patience we can't always see.

Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
60" X 48" X 1.5"

Doing absolutely nothing is essential at times; we need to consider where we've been, where we are, and where we're going, to attach meaning to changing circumstance. Outwardly we may express one truth, but inwardly we sometimes know another. Digging too deeply "in our own dirt" has ruminations of Pandora's box...

Oil on Canvas
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24" X 36" X 1.5"

In a quiet moment of realization, it becomes clear that what defines one's sense of personal power is a set of mostly self-imposed restrictions. To accept ourselves as largely unfettered and limitless, is to be liberated from expectation. Only then can we truly think outside the box...

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Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
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36" X 48" X 1.5"

A dramatic change in landscape draws the eye, but it’s the appearance of sudden radiant light that reveals to the soul the great beauty, spirituality, and magnificence of natural phenomena. Such moments of realization are transcendent - beyond category, beyond the limits of experience. Sand is not just sand, rocks are not just rocks. The femininity of nature is irrefutable.

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20" X 16" X 1.5"

Faced with contradictions that challenge beliefs and principles, all must navigate a path through conflicting ideologies. Dilemma exists in facing life's paradoxes; sometimes we address, but mostly we avoid.

Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
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16" X 40" X 1.5"

What matters most is what something is - not what it's called. Shakespeare had it right; a rose by any other name could never be anything but sweet.

NOTE: The dark space above the image is intentional and not an error in sizing. This composition has a 4" dark band at the top of the painting.

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
30" X 40" X 1.5"

The connection between man and nature is a true constant. The structure of exotic plants, the outline of animal elements - all powerfully echoed in the varied shapes of our body parts.

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Sides Painted Black
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48" X 24" X 1.5"

The beginning of all human life flows from shelter to embrace, the sanctuary of the womb yielding to the process of birth and first embrace. Throughout life, this bond between mother and child repeats countlessly, in the form of protection, safe haven from worldly troubles, and hugs always at the ready.

Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(Framing Optional But Not Required)
16" X 40" X 1.5"

When what we fundamentally know as true is philosophically challenged, the borders of our personal realities dissolve. Certainty and idealism begin to waver and seem less sure.

Acrylic and Oil on Stretched Canvas
Sides Painted Black
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48" X 60" X 1.5"

A life spent learning the world, learning each other, may bring insights along the way. But finding meaning and a place for ourselves within the scheme of things - one of life's most elusive riddles.

Oil on Canvas
Sides Painted Black
(No Framing Required)
30" X 40" X 1.5"

We often talk of life in terms of water, using figures of speech to communicate and describe processes of deep emotional experience. Encouraged to "go with the flow", to resist less the forces in our lives - human nature is instinctively programmed to rail against limitation, to defy odds. We rise to the test, resolute in the belief that we can fight our way through impossibility.