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Artwork note:
The pictorial space in this painting is
drawn using vertical, dividing
brushstrokes and flat, interlocking
areas of brilliant color, including dabs
of yellow, green, pink, orange and blue.
It is clear that Paul Guiragossian’s
objective was to achieve maximum overall
intensity through the use of carefully
pitched, contrasting colors. The paint
marks – short dabs of bright hues – seem
to have been hurriedly applied on the
surface and made to swirl and mix with
each other to produce a restlessly
moving morass of paint that somehow
manages to project the character of the
subject. The paint almost seems to
behave like dense clumps of flowers
caught by a slight breeze on a blazing
hot summer’s day. Not only is this piece
surprising because of its overall
brightness and luminosity, but also
because of its daring, almost
kaleidoscopic shifts in scale, hue and
tonality. |
