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It's Silent, and Whistling Doesn't Help by Shane Weare
It's Silent, and Whistling Doesn't Help
Shane Weare
Title
It's Silent, and Whistling Doesn't Help
Artist
Shane Weare
1936 - PRESENT (biography)Year
1977
Technique
etching and aquatint
Image Size
22 1/2 x 17 1/2" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right, in image
Edition Size
15 of 25
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, and editioned
Reference
Paper
cream BFK Rives wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
SHWE106
Price
SOLD
Description
An impression of "It's Silent, and Whistling Doesn't Help" is in the collection of the Library of Congress.
Shane Weare creates a Surrealist, apocalyptic landscape, desolate with converging rivers, a dam and far off lake. The foreground hints of ruins, nothing appears to be alive. The title explains it succinctly.
Weare uses a Trompe-l'oeil effect with the composition. He creates a wide "picture frame" using aquatint to surround and concentrate the image. This effectively forces the eye of the viewer to focus on the composition, as if looking through a window or view finder.