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Artwork note:
With its dominant red and flesh colored
background, this painting pays homage to
autumn, reading vertically as a ritual
celebration. The domain of music and
dance is represented through the
tambourine player, the second figure
from the right, while a ‘majestic’ woman
with curly hair enters the scene at the
left.
A close look at the canvas reveals the
true dexterity of the different
techniques utilized by the artist,
giving us the sensation of being in
front of a sculpture. Guiragossian
alternates between using thick oil paint
with the flatness of other areas,
bringing to life a wildly animated
shallow relief. The shapes appear in
colored forms, arising out of the
distribution of the brushstrokes
themselves, which cluster and spread out
across the surface. These figures
contrast against colored areas, dividing
the canvas into two horizontal planes:
the upper consists of well-defined
shapes with fine pattern carvings, while
the lower part is very liquid and sort
of fluid, as if there is something
shifting in front of the eye.
While the brush is used in some parts as
a paint mixer, with the bristles
bringing together several colors to
produce enriched hues, the dominant blue
and white surrounding the scene as well
as each individual shape give the
ensemble a vibrating sensation. This
draws attention to the tambourine
player, so that we not only experience
color and time, but also motion. |
