F. Scott Hess Museum : The Hours of the Day : Champagne

Champagne

F. Scott Hess

10 p.m. in my Hours of the Day series, Champagne depicts a couple in a hotel room in an unidentified port city. The red blanket, emblem of the eroticism of the evening hours, dominates the center of the composition. The atmosphere is melancholy, a post-coital reverie. The abandoned remains of an hor dourves and dessert tray litter a table to the lower left, while the woman raises her champagne glass for one more sip.

February 9, 2010

Visitor comments regarding this page (huh?)

Visitor comments are presented "as is" and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or the values of the museum.

If you register and login you can post comments. (huh?)

One of the perks of membership is that you get to post comments on objects, museums, and other member's walls. (Though some users have chosen to restrict access to their personal walls - in which case you'll have to friend them before you can post to their wall.)

Anybody can register - though you do have to be at least thirteen or older and have a working email address.

It doesn't cost anything to register. Just sign up and you'll be an insider in no time flat.

Sylvain

exquisite darks..

May 29, 2011

F. Scott Hess

I saw it as a Vermeer at night. I had quite a task trying to live up to that, so I had to make great darks!

May 29, 2011

Adriana

I like it!-and I agree-very Vermeer with a modern twist!

April 1, 2012

Cynthia Sitton

This is such a fantastic painting Scott! I still remember the first time I saw your work at the Orange County Museum years ago…I was speechless and teary eyed. I thought I might go home and break all my brushes that day. Good thing I held out.

March 18, 2010

F. Scott Hess

Thanks Cynthia! I’ll admit, that was a great show. All 24 pieces up. An artist doesn’t get many such showings in a lifetime. Not being a religious sort, I’m not going to be asked by the Pope to do a Vatican cycle . I’m certainly no Michelangelo, but this series was probably my Sistine Chapel.

March 18, 2010