Category: A western art triptych
“Prayer For A Perilous Decent ”
“Prayer For A Perilous Decent ” is a 45 x 60 oil on canvas and companion piece to the Western Triptych paintings. A family is depicted: A mother and father, shielding their children, through a perilous descent while Holy Mother prays for their safety. Continue reading “Prayer For A Perilous Decent ”
“Blue Fugue”
“Blue Fugue” is another 2007 companion to “Escape To A Mysterious Freedom” and is 3 ft x 4 ft. St. John Of the Cross and Gauguin inform the painting’s theme and milieu. A lone, male figure rides into a terrain of infinite shadows. Continue reading “Blue Fugue”
ESCAPE TO A MYSTERIOUS FREEDOM
“Escape To A Mysterious Freedom” is one of several paintings inspired by my time in New Mexico. It is a 2007 oil on canvas and depicts a lone, female rider. It is a surreal variation of Gauguin’s Riders On The Beach. The woman is on a tension-filled promenade and the freedom which awaits her is an unknown one. I had read St. John of the Cross’ “Dark Night Of The Soul’ shortly before painting this and that certainly factored in. Continue reading ESCAPE TO A MYSTERIOUS FREEDOM
Abstract Paintings
This triptych of western themed paintings followed time spent out west. More than that, they stem from my childhood love of the western, which is one of America’s greatest genres (along with jazz and baseball). Continue reading Abstract Paintings
Alfred Eaker 