Something to do with Circles

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Comment by Resident Curator on December 19, 2021 at 9:26am

Curator’s Comments:  

Something to do with Circles is an interesting piece, by way of media manipulation as much as the colorful composition.  I was surprised to see it identified as a soft pastel piece on canvas, initially believing I was viewing a digitally manipulated photograph.  Rather than presenting as a traditional photorealistic painting, which disguises brushstrokes and approximates photographic flatness with local color, this work offers the viewer a slightly abstracted arrangement with high saturation, and the slight blurring of edges.  The upper right corner furthers this dissolution of the still life, and breaks into a fully abstracted image.  While the piece clearly depicts a painters palette, for me it also conjures the creative process itself, and evokes Georgia O’Keeffe’s often quoted remark about nothing being less real than realism.