acropolis museum VII 35x37” oil & collage on linen as it looked today at 1pm
1:41 PM: i began reworking acropolis museum 7 yesterday, but i didn’t like where the female skateboarder was going, so today i flipped it 180 and strated woking into it again, painting and collaging over the female skateboarder completely.
lately, these reworks are giving me the opportunity to play. as you know if you follow my blog, at heart i’m not an abstract painter, and rercently i love playing with some of the photos i’ve shot of figures viewed from above that i have in my files, creating figure based, painterly abstractions. in this crop you see here, the unplanned and “accidental” painterly passages and colors interact with the figures in a fashion deKooning would have appreciated when he said:
the stars i think about, if i could fly, i could reach in a few old fashioned days. but physicists stars i use as buttons, buttoning up curtains of emptyness. if i stretch my arms next to myself and wonder where my fingers are-that is all the space i need as a painter.
BELOW: the earlier verson of acropolis VII
DETAIL of acropolis museum VII
