Artwork
” The still lifes of Susan Powers have been compared
with the trompe l’oeil works of the well-known 19th–century
American academic artist William Harnett. Like Harnett,
Powers is fascinated with common everyday objects —
books seashells, bottles, and teapots — and she
renders them in a manner so lifelike they ‘fool the eye’
of the viewer, almost leading the viewer to believe that the
objects themselves are present on the canvas. The
trompe l’oeil technique is uncommon with folk artists:
some folk artists cannot produce a photograph–like image...”
American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century
Jay Johnson & William C. Ketchum, Jr.
(Rizzoli International, New York, NY 1983)
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