Acrylic (24 X 32) Inches
Artists Comment:
This painting was developed non-objectively. When I start a picture, it is
pure action painting. I had nothing specific in mind other than I wanted
it to be colorful with little or no paste-on objects. I fling and dribble
paint, to create patches of overlapping color and lines until I am satisfied
or exhausted. When all of this has dried, I study it, and to jot-down all
the images that I could see emerge. After studying the possibilities, I select
the one that, to me, has good pictorial dynamics and emotional
appeal. In this particular case, I had seen a girl at McDonalds and I could
not forget her face. Subconsciously, the action phase of the painting
produced the suggestion or elements that allowed her face to manifest itself.
Always, an objective of mine is to generate a picture using as few
lines as possible. Occasionally, a picture develops so that only a few lines
are required to complete it. This is one such picture. The color and texture
come from the initial turbulent paste-up. I like to think of these type paintings
as a synthesis of Pollock and Matese .
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This is a detail of the left side or the girl's face. The main creative part of this painting was in the initial paste-up and the subsequent visualization of the pictorial subject. While the overall painting is calm (Matese like), the background is turbulent (Pollock like). As always, Turbulence equals calmness.