AMANDLA (2020)Acrylic painting
by Frank Barnes

“Amandla” is an acrylic painting on canvas 51cms width x 77cms height. It is part of a series of paintings called ‘The Jazz Series’. This series of paintings has been inspired by listening to the music of Miles Davis and this particular work is named after one of Miles’ mid-career albums called Amandla. At this time Miles was making music that was transforming the expectation of what was seen as ‘jazz’. The album Amandla has African influences, amongst others, in its sound and structure. The painting makes reference to African art through its colour. It is tribal and purposefully primitive. Art is about making ethical and poetical judgements It is about making transformations. The painting is a spontaneous response to irregular and complex layers of sound. It is an attempt to mix logic, imagination and creative accident. Spontaneity is less about the unconscious and more about inventing new forms, new structures, in which hopefully can be embedded the spirit concealed within the image. My paintings are not intellectual, they don’t describe events, they don’t tell a story, they do have a context, in this instance improvised jazz but they are not concerned with any reference to tangible objectivity. They are just paintings. Paintings are not to be reasoned with, they are not to be understood, they are to be recognised. I take inspiration from colourists such as Barbara Rae, John Hoyland and Hans Hoffman alongside African art and Art Brut.
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Materials used:

Acrylic on canvas

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 51 x 77 x 1.5cm (unframed) / 51 x 77cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative

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