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When Times Are Tough Painting
United States
Painting, Oil on Wood
Size: 54 W x 60 H x 2 D in
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About The Artwork
In this painting a procession of human and partly human characters appears to be moving toward and past the viewer. Something potent and of interest permeates the seemingly pungent air, as an attitude of excitement or foreboding takes shape. The central figure, a youngish woman of enticingly seductive, yet incongruous anatomical attributes, is either buoyed by, or hurtled forth against her will by her companions. The riddle of the mood is further enhanced through the mysterious physical makeup and emotional attitudes displayed by the somewhat surly band of compatriots surrounding the Joan of Arc-like leader. The feeling that something of significance is off here, evoking a scent of impending danger, holds center stage with an equally persuasive, and seemingly competing notion, that better times are yet to come, possibly just around the corner. This work is part of my ongoing series examining the struggle of being human. 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.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:54 W x 60 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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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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