{"product_id":"james-formichella-canvas-print-1","title":"Aardvark","description":"\u003cp\u003eA colonial banquet painted as one of Goya's black dreams. Sashed dignitaries and gowned women crowd a table set with a roast bird, while a gaunt, long-snouted figure and an African woman with a staff hover at the edges. The letter A runs the chain: aardvark, the earth-pig, to Afrikaner, to the Dutch East India Company, the Great Trek, Blood River, apartheid. The feast of empire, the bill still unpaid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Formichella is a Gloucester painter who works by association. Each of these canvases has a companion in \u003cem\u003eAn Alphabetical Caprice\u003c\/em\u003e, a notebook he compiled from his working notes and source clippings: an A to Z in which every letter spirals off into art history, etymology, money, madness, and mortality. He came to Gloucester from Denver in 1978 for the plein-air light, trained in oil under John C. Terelak, and is an associate member of the North Shore Arts Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. Giclée on stretched canvas, a flat $180 regardless of size. Fish City Studios, 39 Main St, Gloucester. Leaves the gallery ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Formichella","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48394715463850,"sku":"FCS-JF-001","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/6371\/9082\/files\/IMG_20260610_121904.png?v=1781110106","url":"https:\/\/fishcitystudios.com\/products\/james-formichella-canvas-print-1","provider":"Fish City Studios","version":"1.0","type":"link"}