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Playing Scramble Painting

Don Keene

United States

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 36 W x 30 H x 2 D in

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About The Artwork

A full white-bodied female figure angles her way upward to the left corner in this tumultuously executed oil narrative. Calling for attention is the woman's face, glancing back in our direction as if in on some joke or dirty piece of gossip. The unsettling quality residing in the gaze of this unattractive, almost dog-like visage, appearing to have been carelessly and spontaneously carved from thick yellow pigment, is indicative of the piece's looming disconcerting tone. Moving outside the contour of the woman's body we're confronted with one bent human leg and no less than four other heads, one apparently attached to it's own body passing behind, or beneath, the original white figure, with the others (probably male, but not decidedly so) in various attitudes of adoration regarding the woman. Witnessing here a human grouping of several naked forms, with attention focused on the centered female, the essence of a group sexual encounter takes shape in our mind's eye and lends perception to the painting's gritty intent. Simultaneously rising in consciousness is an uneasy sense of the risk inherent in this enticing, but potentially perilous, game of scramble. 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.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:36 W x 30 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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