Rodney Hardee

Rodney Hardee is a folk player who resides in Lakeland, FL. He is a working-class, self-taught, religiously inspired southern artist. He has been painting folk art before 1972 and has quite a unique style of art. It is folky but has an elegant be next to with fine-grained images, and is often religious bordering on slightly odd.

Hardee, who started out painting farm scenes, has past moved onto cats and Adam & Eve pictures, as skillfully as periodically throwing in new various religious figures. He is proudly included in the "20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen. One upset Rodney used to inspire him early upon his arrival as an artist was that of Grandma Moses' works. However, after painting a couple of trees and buildings bearing in mind hers, he eventually took off into his own style. Interestingideas.com writes very nearly Hardee saw that "He developed an edginess in his play in that spills into the literal, with figures and colors (mostly primary) sharply delineated, typically established in spaces that are strongly defined geometrically." Another unique allocation of his paintings, is that he dates and writes a comment next to the date reading as if he is writing a letter from house to update people upon his increase with his paintings.

Florida painter Ruby C. Williams credits Hardee for helping her inauguration her folk art career. when he encouraged her to sell her paintings. And as in the distance as career boosts go, Howard Finster was a major distress to Hardee's beginnings in art gone he visited lakeland in the 80s. Hardee has a significant accretion of Howard Finster's works whatever over his walls at his home. One major value of Hardee's folk art career to which he centers his goals on the order of is his desire to urge on other folk artists in his community. He figures that if there are new people that ration this thesame interest as him, then they would appreciate the same things that make him wealthy and happy as well.