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| Medium: | Oil over an Acrylic field on Canvas | |
| Size: | 20" x 24" inches | |
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This work continues with recent techniques and newly adopted skills. After laying a field of iridescent Gold, and allowing it to dry properly, the artist laid impasto Reds, Olive greens, and metallics. Blues provide an element of coolness and sky. After the canvas was covered with paint, and had been worked a little, Geoffrey stood back at a distance and digested. According to Artist and Historian Dan Christoffel, Max Ernst and Julian Schnabel were known for responding to their materials. Ernst used to spill oil paints into a bath-tub, dip his canvases, pull them out, and place them along his studio wall... he'd sit back and contemplate, and once he found his inspiration, visualized the image, discovered his muse (insert anecdote here) would proceed to finished the piece. After seeing for a while, Geoffrey discovered a cap in the upper part of the painting, and it struck a chord. He worked in some elements of the cap initially, then came back hours later to enhance the forms below it. 'Cover' is used in the military to refer to someone's hat. To be 'Under Cover' means to be wearing your hat. The term is ironic relative to the military's common practice of secrecy. Additionally, the lack of facial detail in this piece relates to the name... for most of us 'under cover' implies something that is hiding or hidden. |
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