Tag: 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
Alfred Eaker 