{"id":1434,"date":"2012-09-06T20:58:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2012-09-06T20:58:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:58:59","slug":"artist-reception-what-i-have-painted-so-far-robert-waldo-brunelle-jr-at-winooski-welcome-center-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/artist-reception-what-i-have-painted-so-far-robert-waldo-brunelle-jr-at-winooski-welcome-center-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Reception: “What I Have Painted So Far”: Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr. at Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thursday, September 20, 6:30-8:30PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

“What I Have Painted So Far:\u00a030 years of paintings by Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr.”<\/p>\n

Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr. paints Vermont the way David Hockney painted California or Peter Hurd painted New Mexico: a blend of place and style. Brunelle, who is also a cartoonist, brings a comic-inspired illustrative quality into his painting.<\/p>\n

Brunelle is a seventh-generation Vermonter, with roots dating back to the 1750s. Brunelle was born in Rutland in 1958, and, as he puts it, \u201clearned to draw before I learned to write!\u201d He received no formal art training until attending St. Michael\u2019s College in 1976. There he fell under the influence of renowned art professor, Roy Kennedy, well-known painter Lance Richbourg, and the namesake of the Sloane Art Center, Sy Sloane. Brunelle graduated in 1980 with a double degree in History and Fine Arts, and went on to earn a Master\u2019s in Art Education at Castleton State College. Brunelle has been exhibiting his paintings in Vermont since 1975, and has served as the president of the Northern Vermont Artist Association since 1995. He is also a political cartoonist, whose strip \u201cMr. Brunelle Explains It All\u201d may be seen in the humor magazine Funny Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Brunelle\u2019s scenes have a before and after, even if those are not in the paintings themselves. The moments in the paintings are not necessarily the pinnacle moments. Old houses are worn down. They are matter of fact. If there is a love affair in these paintings, it is between the artist and the light. Brunelle says, \u201cUnderneath the skeleton of our modern Vermont towns and cities, there\u2019s the Victorian world and little bits and pieces of it are still sticking out. If you know where to look, where to dig, so to speak\u2026.I\u2019m interested in time and the effect that time has on people and how things are always receding into the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition features over 150 paintings and is the single largest showing of the artist\u2019s work ever.<\/p>\n

WINOOSKI WELCOME CENTER & GALLERY\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, September 20, 6:30-8:30PM | Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery <\/p>\n

This exhibition features over 150 paintings and is the single largest showing of the artist\u2019s work ever. The works span the artists’s career since he began painting at St. Micheal’s College in 1976 and include many images of the landscape, architecture, and people of Vermont. <\/p>\n

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