Tag: American art

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The difference between this more impressionistic style of painting and the old Dutch masters is… COLOR. The subject matter is the same, the church setting is the same, the exploration of light is similar, but this is colorful where the other is dull.

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THIS PAINTING, Y’ALL. This painting glows, quite literally. It is the fucking bomb dot com. It is utterly unique within the art world, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything else. It is in my roster roll of favorites, sandwiched between Klimt’s Morte e Vita and Caravaggio’s Penitent Magdalene, if that gives you any indication of just how insanely important this piece is to my art worldview. It’s a pity that more people don’t know about it.

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I like this style – thick slabs of paint in an abstract, aimless manner that all come together into a coherent whole. It speaks of peaceful revolution, of subversion and just a touch of anarchy in a carefully ordered world. It breaks barriers and brings down the status quo without doing anyone or anything any harm.

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There is solidarity in the ordinary everyday bits of being human and that is the fundamental cornerstone of this work. It definitely gets the point across – and how. Everything about it screams “normal”, “everyday”, “pedestrian”, “unobtrusive”. Even the colors, whilst bright, still have a greyed tone to them as if they want to fade to the background a little bit.

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If you’ve never lived in rural Missouri, you don’t get this painting and I can’t adequately explain it to you. That is all.

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This, also, is an example of shaping the world with different ways of thought. The African American experience is such that it colors the very fiber of art in a way that can’t be duplicated.