Acrylic (24 X 32) Inches
Artists Comment:
This painting was developed non-objectively. When I started out with this
picture, I had nothing specific in mind other than I wanted it to be lighter
or higher in key. I pulled stuff from my junk box and started pasting and
before it dried completely, I did my little dance in which I fling and dribble
paint, to create patches of color and lines. I do this until I am
exhausted. When all of this has dried, I began to 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. Always, an objective of mine is to generate a picture using
as few lines as possible. Occasionally, I see a picture that only requires
a few lines to complete. This picture was completed with about a dozen lines
from my brush. All the color and texture come from the initial turbulent
paste-up. Very Matese like, I think.
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This is a detail of the women'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, the background is turbulent. Turbulence equals calmness.