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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
In this painting two male partners cling to and admire each others bodies and selves in a private dance of love that they have imagined and longed for during the day leading up to this private celebration. The gender and anatomical ambiguity of the the partially obscured bodies (a breast here, an extra arm fondling oneself there) alludes to the specificity non-requirement inherent in the intent and actuality of desiring and/or loving another person. Of a less enlightened character though is the atmosphere of societal disapproval from which this mutual admiration formed, took root and blossomed. Thus this beautiful joining of symmetrical forms coming together harmoniously and unimpeded, as viewed elegantly from above, has nonetheless been carved and ratcheted out with difficulty from thick, resistant stock to finally give way to a hard-won brutal beauty, the scars of the conquest remaining visible as of necessity. 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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2018
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Painting:
Oil on Canvas
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One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
36 W x 30 H x 2 D in
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Not Framed
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Not applicable
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Don Keene
United States
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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