acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"
Friday, December 03, 2010
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On my first day in Memphis, August 28, 2005, I visited the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. That happened to be the last day of a show called, “Patrick Kelly: A Retrospective.” The 80s clothes, he designed, were known for their use of colorful decorative buttons. Kelly was an African American who was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. In 1979, he moved to New York to study at Parsons School of Design. In 1985 he showed his first collection. He died in 1990 of complications from AIDS at the age of thirty-five. The bright colors of the buttons I saw in the show lead me to create this painting.
acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"
acrylic on canvas, 5" x 5"
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Lots of slices of rainbow pie. :D I love all the bright colors, Mo. At first glance it made me think of the spin board from a children's game like Twister or something of that ilk only a lot more colorful. It's nice. The title is a bit amusing. Makes me think of Rocky, "Yo, Adrienne" or maybe half of a yo-yo. Interesting story behind this one.
ReplyDeleteDaisy:
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That's an Interesting SPIN there - your take on this painting. 'Happy you like the bright colors. I struggled to finish this one. The big hurdle was how to represent what I saw in the exhibit.
Sometimes when I get stuck, I put a painting aside and move on to another one. The titles in this series are assigned arbitrarily anyway.
Mo : )
I love the bright colors too and I'm just beginning to paint some acrylic abstracts myself. I have never tried "dot art" but who knows what the future may hold?
ReplyDeletetimethief:
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My early interest in dot art sprung from looking at paintings by Georges Seurat and Claude Monet. Later on I became fascinated with Aboriginal Art. In recent years, I've enjoyed viewing works by Vance Kirkland and Yaoyoi Kusama (her installations are bit on the sexual side).
Painting with dots is a tedious process. Even though I have created many dot paintings since 2002, I still have problems with smearing dots that are wet.
If you do create some dot artwork, please let me know. I'll be interested to see what you do.
Mo : )