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Suspicion

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Suspicion
Suspicion

Suspicion is spray paint and latex on canvas, 36″ x 24″.  I created it on May 22, 2015.  I wanted to depart a little from my usual Jackson-Pollockish abstract expressionist  method of splattering paint onto canvas and try something more in the line of hard-edge painting. This turned out to be somewhere between the two.

I chose the name Suspicion, because if I were to put myself in the place of the white squiggle to the right of center, I would see hard edges all around on a vague, nebulous background with unidentifiable things moving toward me from all directions while being unaware of their purpose(s).   I have no idea what the technical, psychological name for this type of empathy/sympathy for a splatter of paint would be,  but now that I bring it up, a graduate student in psychology somewhere will probably write a paper about it.  I had no idea what I would name it when I was working on it.  I was just experimenting with form and color.

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Concerto in Yellow Minor

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The Honey Sonata
Concerto in Yellow Minor

This is the last of the May 17-18 works.   This one is 16″ x 20″.   This was another experiment with colors and techniques that intrigued me at the moment.   Originally, I chose the title “The Honey Sonata”, because the background color resembles honey and sonata because, like with some of my previous paintings, I see a rhythm or “musicality” in some of my works.  However, after some contemplation, I changed it to the present title. The primary reason for the change was simply because “The Honey Sonata” just didn’t sit well with me subjectively.  The other reason is because a sonata is primarily for a keyboard instrument and there is no obvious connection to a keyboard instrument in this work. Concerto in Yellow Minor seemed to be a better fit, because a concerto is usually for one instrument (the dominant color equivalent here is yellow), but it can generally be any instrument.  I chose “…Yellow Minor” simply because it is a lighter, weaker shade of yellow.   A stronger, darker yellow I would call “yellow major”

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Beaujolais

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Beaujolais, 2015
Beaujolais, 2015

Another experiment from May 17-18.  I think the spacing between the white and yellow dribbles gives the painting a sense of isolation, separation, and division.  The lighter area at the bottom is a result of my poor photography.  The background color is consistent in the original.  16″ x 20″

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Burgundy Winter

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Burgundy Winter, 2015
Burgundy Winter, 2015

Another from May 17-18.  As with several of the others, I saw a color I liked and toyed with it and with different methods of dribbling and splattering paint.  16″ x20″.

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Afterthought

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image Another from May 17-18.  I found an interesting color of spray paint in Lowe’s or Home Depot and used it for the background.  For contrast I used shades of yellow.  I used a paint-loaded artist’s brush to string/dribble the paint.  For some reason that escapes me, I thought I would throw in a line of dark brown.  I regret that decision now, and would omit it if I could re-do this one.  On the other hand, it does break the pattern of the overall work.   The work is 24″ x 36″.