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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 8 W x 10 H x 1 D in
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A spare, seemingly disparate collection of organic forms, spaced out from the center as if unaware of each other's presence or import, and at the same time working and moving in tandem, makes up the composition of this small, spontaneous work in oil. The dominant form, in this case what appears to be the makings of a face in profile engulfed in a dramatic visage, looks in cryptically toward center from the lower left. Upon second viewing this head appears attached to an upper torso reclining across the picture plane, left to right, as if floating in some painterly imaginary space. The remaining solid form takes on the impression of another head, this time viewed from above, looking down and entering our field of vision from the upper right corner of the rectangle. The straight horizontal and slightly slanted bands of color comprising the space between these two bodily forms seem to connect them as if pulling them toward each other, most likely to culminate in an imagined, long sought embrace. The final recognizable form, that of a quickly dashed-on upturned hand visible in the upper left, gesturing imploringly as if at the end of an outstretched, straining arm, neatly corroborates this thesis of a corporeal merging together. Influences, among others, include Max Beckmann, Edvard Munch, Bob Thompson, George McNeil, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Francesco Clemente, R.B. Kitaj and Willem de Kooning.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:8 W x 10 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Don Keene's paintings are bold expressionistic renditions of a ‘Red Light’ district that lurks in the subconscious. Evading time, place and definition, these vignettes represent a freedom of will from judgment while the colors and lines that portray unabashed passions saturate the composition with frenzied force. - D. Domick Lombardi Don Keene is a product of Pasadena's Art Center College of Design and the graduate program in Studio Art at The College of New Rochelle. His concerns with the human figure are less illustrative than they are metaphoric. His abstract accumulations of paint and form investigate the relationships we have with our bodies. The investigative dialogue he orchestrates deals with how and why human experience is confounded by primordial passion and desire within a free society that confuses sensuality, sexually charged imagery, emotive content, feelings of personal tension and self-consciousness, and the role of eroticism and pornography. It is the incongruous nature of this content that, for Keene, is in need of exploration. The resultant paintings and drawings on canvas and paper are purportedly abstract yet feel sexual. - William C. Maxwell
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