Porkopolis

Stan Rice

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• The Flying Pig

• (1995), oil on canvas
• 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.)
• 800 x 800 (100 KB)

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• Pleasures of the Hearth #2

• [part of a trio of paintings on the theme of being at home, being with your family, being with yourself]
• (1991), oil on canvas
• 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.)
• 800 x 800 (100 KB)

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• Sacrificial Pig

• (1999), oil on canvas
• 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.)
• 800 x 800 (70 KB)

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• Hog

• (2002), oil on canvas
• 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.)
• 800 x 800 (64 KB)

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About the Artist

Stan Rice, United States, (1942-2002). The book jacket flap of Rice's Paintings describes his paintings as "Vivid, passionate, primitive ...Childlike, ironic, and darkly humorous - they attest to the original vision of a talented poet and painter."

D. Eric Bookhardt a New Orleans art critic writing for the Weekly Gambit said of Rice: "...bold, bright and even garish concoctions that suggest the work of an untrained folk artist with a sophisticated expressionist outlook. The tone is visceral in a way that recalls the deadpan humor and word games of the old time San Francisco Bay-area beat poets, but the execution is pointedly, almost defiantly, raw. The figures and settings are almost crudely rendered, and the brilliant, sometimes gaudy colors appear as a melee of clashing polychrome tonalities. An example of no known school, they are the mental offspring of a poet who just happens to be the spouse of novelist Anne Rice."