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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 36 W x 42 H x 2 D in
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The thick, rough smatterings of oil paint in this tumultuous composition together conform to allude to the nature of our political process and the pervasive void of leadership that lately defines our shared human experience. "Parker," our one heroic candidate, a savior poised ready to lead us from our own self-destructive ways, flies angelically left to right above the fray, wings spread and chin turned upward in resigned profile into the top right corner of the canvas. On second reading however the wings morph into the head and legs of a second standing figure, this one turned in left profile diametrically away from, and seemingly with contrary aims to, the impulses of the main, dominate Parker figure. The upraised left arm of this second player, designated by just a grey smudge with hand upturned, conjures the notion of looking back in yearning for better days, here signifying the "people" whose view is to be overcome. Left unresolved in visually laying out this conflict is which resolution, that attributable to ways of the past or the future, would be best for those involved. 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:36 W x 42 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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