St. Pete - Newlywed and Nearly Dead
by Jonathan Morrill
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$300
Dimensions
20.000 x 16.000 x 0.050 inches
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Title
St. Pete - Newlywed and Nearly Dead
Artist
Jonathan Morrill
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
St. Petersburg, Florida, "The Sunshine City" in "The Sunshine State".
This acrylic painting combines the retro-style composition of classic vacation post cards, with elements of surrealism, and "things that aren't there anymore";
The "inverted pyramid" pier, beloved by the community, but torn down anyway,
Salvador Dali himself is peeking out from the block letters,
followed by a pair of tranquil manatees,
the famous 'Coney Island Grill, located on Martin Luther King Boulevard (9th Street North),
and the renovated Vinoy Hotel.
St. Petersburg is currently in the midst of a huge urban development,
and the quaint mom and pop feel, is being replaced with glass tower skyscrapers, gentrification, and an urban overhaul.
St. Petersburg's new Dali Museum houses the largest collection of original Salvador Dali works inside of North America.
There are many bizarre and twisted tales woven inside of St. Pete's history,
these works in this series depict twenty-one of them.
"Land of the newlywed and the nearly dead", is a term credited to the completely dead
Jack Kerouac, who also referred to St. Petersburg as "a good place to die",
in which he did.
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May 6th, 2019
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