Description
Prairie on Fire presents Charles Deas’s interpretation of its named subject through a deliberately organized composition. A considered distribution of form and space keeps the subject legible while inviting a slower reading of the complete image.
Color and light work with the underlying design, expressing Charles Deas’s distinctive sense of pictorial order. The relationship between focal detail and quieter surrounding areas is essential to the composition’s measured visual impact. The composition gains depth from this coordination of decisive focal passages and restrained supporting areas.
A skilled oil reproduction gives the composition a tangible surface through layered paint and individually handled passages. The result combines the accessibility of a reproduction with the texture and individual character expected from a traditionally painted canvas.



