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Thoughts, closed (2001)Oil painting
by Don Keene
£557.77
Original artwork description
Two pairs of stacked buttocks, seen from behind, form the basis of this composition and so imply an act of sexual intercourse, or at least a sensual merging of two corporeal entities, to be taking place. The pair of adjacent spheroidal shapes hovering in the center of the picture plane (and undulating action), along with the emerging drawing of a penile head below these, conjure male genitalia, thus reinforcing the picture's prevailing theme. Although this scene, or one like it, may take shape in the thoughts of healthy adults, during or outside of participation in sexual activity more often than realized, these thoughts are likely not admitted or, in the extreme, are closed off from self-realization.
Influences, among others, include Max Beckmann, Edvard Munch, Bob Thompson, George McNeil, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Francesco Clemente, R.B. Kitaj and Willem de Kooning.
For more information or questions, you can always contact me via Artfinder.
Materials used:
Oil paint, gesso and charcoal
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 50.8 x 40.64cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Organic
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
Tags:
#figurative#expressive#texture#colorful#painterly#bodies#textural oil#sexuality#figurative expressionism#figurative abstract#dramatic paintings#expressive energetic#sexual theme#movement and
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Original artwork description
Two pairs of stacked buttocks, seen from behind, form the basis of this composition and so imply an act of sexual intercourse, or at least a sensual merging of two corporeal entities, to be taking place. The pair of adjacent spheroidal shapes hovering in the center of the picture plane (and undulating action), along with the emerging drawing of a penile head below these, conjure male genitalia, thus reinforcing the picture's prevailing theme. Although this scene, or one like it, may take shape in the thoughts of healthy adults, during or outside of participation in sexual activity more often than realized, these thoughts are likely not admitted or, in the extreme, are closed off from self-realization.
Influences, among others, include Max Beckmann, Edvard Munch, Bob Thompson, George McNeil, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Francesco Clemente, R.B. Kitaj and Willem de Kooning.
For more information or questions, you can always contact me via Artfinder.
Materials used:
Oil paint, gesso and charcoal
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 50.8 x 40.64cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Organic
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
Tags:
#figurative#expressive#texture#colorful#painterly#bodies#textural oil#sexuality#figurative expressionism#figurative abstract#dramatic paintings#expressive energetic#sexual theme#movement and