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Painting, Oil on Wood
Size: 24 W x 20 H x 1 D in
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The thick, rough smatterings of oil paint in this tumultuous composition together conform to depict the torso of a human figure, blue and green breasts dominant, and a head in three quarter profile stretching out to the right center of the picture plane, nearing the far right edge. The expression of the face, as well as the attitude of the stretched body conjure an attitude of intense longing, or reaching, for an important, sought after goal. When considered in tandem with the title, immediate recognition dawns that the human figure depicted, albeit coarsely, in the painting, is striving for the familiarity and comfort of home, after which has ostensibly been a particularly long and arduous journey either physically or metaphorically. Irregardless of one's past, position or orientation the emotional context of this scenario can be universally understood. A subliminal alternative reading having the aforementioned two breasts forming instead the head and torso of a secondary diminutive figure, attitude of posture running counter to that of the adult, quickens the intensity of the theme of seeking the familiar ground of home; that of bringing a baby to a refuge of safety in an emotionally raging sea. 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 Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 20 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
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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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