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Centaur Painting 2

Acrylic Paint on Canvas, May 2000, 75cm x 60cm

Centaur Painting 2
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Centaur Painting 2

This painting is in direct contrast to Centaur Painting 1 in that it shows the Centaur form in the 2D jigsaw format rather than the 3D Centaur form.
This means the painting does not have a clearly identifiable image or landscape to observe. The viewer is invited to look at the details and ‘work out’ the various relationships between the 2D jigsaw from and the surface image painted onto the form.
The simple palette of five colours, as used in Centaur Painting 1, extends this effect with none of the colours significantly receding or emerging from the picture plane or with any dramatic contrast relative to each other. This makes it more difficult to find a definitive starting point for looking at this painting. In other words, there is no distinctive point in the painting that says ‘look here first’.
The viewer is faced with an image akin to a map that needs to be ‘read’ for clues as to what it is or what it might be. There are two distinct sets of information to be ‘read’. The first is the 2D jigsaw Centaur form generally defined in black. The remaining imagery is the surface of the 2D jigsaw which poses its own set of imagery and relationships, some of which suggest possible 3D configurations.

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