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Claude Roy
“Afternoon Dance”
Oil 20” x 24” $745.00
Claude Roy explores the landscape in vivid and brilliant
explosions of color through a robust impasto palette knife
technique. Typically he paints idyllic vistas of country sides, meadows
and fields with architectural accompaniments of cottages, punctuated with
flourishes of cadmium reds and greens.
“Afternoon Dance” is a maverick painting due to the below
eye level perspective, which brings the viewer close up with the tall wavy
grasses of the lush meadows that were always seen from afar in his canvases.
Roy has decided to focus on the winged subjects that inhabit the flora of his pastoral
renditions.
There are four butterflies that are depicted in flight: a
revealing of a world that is oftenoverlooked in the overall scheme of a
landscape painting. Attention has been given to the details on the wings
and the interactions between the butterflies. Here, Roy’s palette knife
technique in full display, with strokes and impressions slicing through the
hues and colors suggesting leaves and clusters of saturated blooms that
are in the foreground.
The background is a soft haze of subtle layering of delicate
blues and soft whites creating an illusion of depth and distance in the sky.
The cool tones of the background contrast and accentuate the crimson
impasto that comprises the flowers that the butterflies are fluttering
upon. This harmony of color palette harmony infuses the painting with a
whimsical vibrancy and creates a joyous presentation.
© Katherine Shevchenko,
Art Consultant,
J.R. Mooney Gallery, Boerne
July 8, 2015
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