Sun Worship? My New Painting "Sun by the Truro Door"
Philip Koch, Sun by the Truro Door, oil on panel, 18 x 24 inches, 2021 Science tells us without the energy that the sun shines down on our planet we couldn't sustain life. It's a big deal. I think intuitively most artists sense that- certainly many painters (think Claude Monet and the French Impressionists for example) made celebrating the sun's light a core element in their works. Above is a new oil that is headed up to Addison Art Gallery in Orleans, MA next week. I did it entirely from my memory of watching the first rays of the rising sun in the painting room in Edward Hopper's studio on Cape Cod. Anyone living I think has felt the quiet touch of excitement seeing that first splash of morning's sunlight . I have a long history with that idea. When I was a teenager I wasn't particularly interested in art. One afternoon when leafing through my parents' Time magazine I stumbled into Hopper's painting...