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Merge Into Painting

Don Keene

United States

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 48 W x 60 H x 2 D in

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Originally listed for $3,800

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This painterly collection of spongy organic forms appears upright and loosely figurative, as if inviting the viewer in closer for a warm, enveloping full body hug. The variety of organ and appendage-like forms, some seemingly inclined to draw inward, some pushing out, seductively suggests a full merging of the bodies' various parts as a satisfying, culminating experience. The fact that some of the shapes, when viewed together circumspectly, merge into a backward leaning head, or two eyes and an open mouth, with tongue extended, does not impede or undercut the initial reading of the essential theme, that of pleasurable merging. 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 AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:

Oil on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

48 W x 60 H x 2 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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