RED
About This Work
Original oil painting 1-1/2in thick on hard board. The red portrait shifts the reading from landscape-based contemplation to interior intensity. Red can signify desire, danger, memory, or psychic heat; here it reads as an emotional field rather than a literal environment. The inclusion of a profile-like figure against this saturated ground recalls the expressive portrait traditions of Symbolism and early Expressionism, where color becomes an emotional rather than descriptive force.
Tags
Louisiana
Bayou
Landscape
Gator
Alligator
Great Blue Heron
Pelican
Cypress
Southern
Oil
Paintings
Fine
Art
