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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 40 W x 48 H x 1 D in
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This heavily applied impasto oil painting, in conjuring likened images of ancient fertility depictions of protective goddesses, is not far off the mark in that regard. It certainly has to do with a woman's fertility and the protective aspect of her love in motherhood. The painting's central figure, simply but fully realized in the form of a large head and torso, anchors the painting in both weight and content. The visage, here protectively enveloped in a gauzy reverential wrap, gazes to our right in an attitude of unhurried contemplation, with her arms gently cradling what might be her breasts or a child at her breast, either reading referring accurately to the aforementioned attributes of love and motherhood. Directly below the woman's torso, as if to form a structural, supporting base is what appears to be her knees in concert with a cross-legged sitting position, but which then morphs tellingly into the head and torso of a second, older child, this one purportedly also under the watchful care of the increasingly plausible mother figure. Left for the eye and imagination to decipher is the vertically positioned blackish apparition-like figure seemingly floating up like so much red-faced smoke to hover near the nurturer/protector's right shoulder. Whether this ghost-like entity is threatening in attitude to our mother figure, or merely on hand to observe or offer watchful matronly guidance, is in the end of no consequence. As any new mother knows (and the rest of us - who have had mothers) can imagine, the overpowering universal instinct of clinging to the love of her children is a natural force of immense and consequential dimensions, and one not to be taken lightly. 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:40 W x 48 H x 1 D in
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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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