acropolis 20x80” as it looked moments ago
1:52 PM: this painting has gone through many stages, and this was the most recent, done on october 27. today, as i gazed at it on my south studio wall, it wasn’t working at all. such a tall, narrow format: 80x20” is challenging, whether verical or horizontal. so today i’m giving it another go, this time as a horizontal.
while the most recent version you see here has some admirable passages, it simply doesn’t hold up. the viewer’s eye wanders up and down with no place to rest. i had condidered removing the walking plaid shirted figure towars the bottom, whose scale doesn’t match the other figures. but we’d still be faced with the same issue.