One of the large piece created for this show, "Story Within", at Peterson-Cody Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, opening Nov, 4, 2011 is Power Struggle, 30x40, oil on panel.
This is a composition of triangles considered the most stable of design devices. The triangle also has symbolic roots in ancient culture.
In Egypt the triangle was a symbolic representation of a triad related to man,
woman and offspring, think pyramids. In Greece
a triangle was the door of life; for Pythagoreans
a symbol of the goddess of wisdom Athena; in Buddhism a triangle symbolized pure
flame and three treasures of Buddha. In Christianity equilateral
triangle signifies the consummation,
closure, accomplishment, completion, Trinity.
Just a few trivia tid-bits there. I'm not sure all that had anything to do with the initial design since it's impossible to arm wrestle and not get a few triangles, however when analyzing why a composition works or doesn't, it's an interesting thing to think about.
Here's a previous post I did about Power Struggle where I used pre-varnish images. This piece was very difficult to get a good picture of and I'm still not sure the color is right.
Here are a couple posts about the tricky business of photographing oil paintings, Part 1 and Part 2.
See you tomorrow!
looks like a painting of a photograph.
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