2:58 PM: i resumed working on benaki museum vista today. so why did it change from acropolis museum vista, which was the title when i started this painting yesterday? because mikela, when she saw the photos i was working from, corrected me!
it’s changed quite a bit. the top and bottom quadrants of the composition have filled in a bit, so that the blue sky in the center no longer seems to disect the long narrow composition into two distinct segments. right now as i cast glances form about 30 feet, it appears playful, energetic and kind of serves as a frame for the figures you now see, adding to yesterday’s lone female figure looking out the museum window onto the heart of athens; the acropolis. shots i took while waking through the city two weeks ago, of antique stores with frames and mirrors stacked against one another, mingle with the fragmented cityscape , leading the eye up, down, around and into the suggested space beyond the canvas.
tomorrow i may interrupt that still too dominant blue triangle of sky and create more connection between the upper and lower portions.
benaki museum vista 3pm 3/31/23 detail of lower portion
benaki museum vista 78x23” 3pm 3/31/23
BELOW: YESTERDAY’S PALETTE
