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Triple Concerto

This is a very early piece of mine, painted at a time where I was taking a lot of inspiration from the commercial design work on display in magazines and high-design retail establishments.

From a painter’s perspective, I was exploring color balance at this point. A blue keyboard on orange background, an orange keyboard on yellow background, and a yellow piano on blue background are set in a opposing formation of purple, green and red squares. The process of finding the color balance is one of simple trial and error. I know it when I see it.

It was at very early this point in my painting that I started to form my principle criterion of ‘constant motion’.  If I find that my eye fixes on any single detail, I make a change until my eye is is a state of constantly circulating the surface. When I achieve constant motion of the eye, I know the piece is complete.

acrylic on canvas 14×11

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