| By
the time I got to paintings like Animal Crackers, I was
really hitting my stride. This style allowed me to unleash color
with a vitality and livliness I can find no other way. The paint
is so vivid, is just flows like milk in a cup of coffee. The great
circular motion in the piece is similar to sea shells or swirling
galaxies; it's really an expression of the Golden Ratio. Of course,
that was something I was very mindful of. The idea that everything
in the universe carries the same signature is intriguing. It's very
spiritual.
The
title is taken from the Marx Brothers movie. Like The
Cocoanuts, the picture is the big-screen version of their
hit Broadway play in the late 1920s. A comedy classic, yada, yada.
This
painting is part of my personal collection, and is unfortunately
not for sale. By that, I mean the painting has taken some minor
damage here and there (my fault for hanging it next to an open window),
so it wouldn't do much good to sell to anyone. At least you get
to admire all my hard work here, eh?
The
best solution I can find is to place the canvas behind glass, much
as you would do with an ordinary watercolor painting on paper. You
might have to remove the canvas from the stretcher bars, but then
you would lose all the crazy scribbling on the back. Choices, choices.
What a dilemma. |
