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Red Heaven Painting

Don Keene

United States

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 42 W x 36 H x 2 D in

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The dominant visual element in this tumultuously laden oil paint narrative first appears to be a large royal blue head locked in the upper left quadrant, left profile possibly peering out of the picture plane, but more likely peeking down over its ample left shoulder toward the goings-on in the composition's lower center portion. Here the eye is directed toward, and lands on, another large, disembodied head. This one, formed in generous swathes of frantically applied white pigment, is turned radically upside down in a dramatic visage of startled disorientation, an upward turned, apparently attached green fingered hand supporting this reading. Contributing to this player's assumed persona of frenetic anxiety is a third ample head, this one in orange-dominant hues with a sinister expression and a horn-laden dome all conspiring to create a sense of claustrophobic doom for our sympathetic central figure. The final organic form, this one in dark reds and purples, and lacking clear contextual orientation (another head? a claw-like hand for the blue figure?) forms either the final barrier to escape for our seemingly trapped protagonist, or more hopefully, the vehicle for escape, like some unexpected but welcome friendly spaceship. Though the narrative to this point is far from embodying a heaven-like ambiance, visually or in mood, the hope is that some hidden connection will assert itself between the red of that final formal entity in the painting's lower left corner with the strikingly red hue of the exasperated figure's grimacing mouth; and that this connection will generate the escape and entry into the red heaven we are pulling for. 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.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:42 W x 36 H x 2 D in

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Don Keene's paintings are bold expressionistic renditions of a ‘Red Light’ district that lurks in the subconscious. Evading time, place and definition, these vignettes represent a freedom of will from judgment while the colors and lines that portray unabashed passions saturate the composition with frenzied force. - D. Domick Lombardi Don Keene is a product of Pasadena's Art Center College of Design and the graduate program in Studio Art at The College of New Rochelle. His concerns with the human figure are less illustrative than they are metaphoric. His abstract accumulations of paint and form investigate the relationships we have with our bodies. The investigative dialogue he orchestrates deals with how and why human experience is confounded by primordial passion and desire within a free society that confuses sensuality, sexually charged imagery, emotive content, feelings of personal tension and self-consciousness, and the role of eroticism and pornography. It is the incongruous nature of this content that, for Keene, is in need of exploration. The resultant paintings and drawings on canvas and paper are purportedly abstract yet feel sexual. - William C. Maxwell

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