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Frederic Chopin, oil on canvas, 6"x6", 2024
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I always wanted to glob on paint like the expressionists did more than a hundred years ago. This one was done in an immediate fashion, wet on wet. I've been enchanted recently by Northern European romanticism, sans the nationalism. In fact I believe (German) expressionism is an extension of romanticism. I don't think I've ever painted Chopin before.
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Musica Elettronica Viva, pen and paint on paper, 14"x11", 2024
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Drawn in my sketchbook from the image inside the LP
The Sound Pool, recorded in 1969 but not released until 1998. I bought that one while in Florence last year. MEV was formed in Rome in 1966 by two Americans who had emigrated there: Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum. The image features Patricia Coaquette, Ivan Coaquette, Franco Cataldi, Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, and Frederic Rzewski.
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Two Eipo girls making a net, 20"x10", oil on canvas
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Both paintings come from one single photograph illustrating four Eipo children making a net. On the 6-CD set
Musik aus dem Bergland West-Neuguineas
are several songs sung by children while making a net. The two in the top 100 were sung by Ginto and Kuto (who are two 11-year-old girls depicted in either the painting above, or below) and by Enento, Yakne, and Toronto. The Eipo live on the Indonesian side of Papua New Guinea.
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| Two Eipo girls making a net, 20"x10", oil on canvas |
