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Seagulls

This is a large acrylic painting on canvas measuring 66" x 48" in size that has been framed with a rustic solid wood frame. It was done in 1983 while I was attending NYU for my Masters Degree in studio art and led to a stylistic change and my adoption of my slashing and throwing action style of the time period to come. It is named "Seagulls" as it looked a little like a Flock of Seagulls flying through a colorful action painting. When I first did that painting it caused quite a stir. Many of the more "Punk" devotees in the early eighties saw it as an abomination of color and others saw the true beauty in it. They fought over it for quite a while. The punk artists said it looked like "A Flock of Seagulls Flying through a Leroy Neiman Painting" and that it was an insult to their sensibilities. Like the Impression Sunrise painting by Monet, I went with the critics insults and named it just that, for some time, until I just shortened it to "Seagulls". I actually met Leroy twice and discussed art with him once at the Whiney Museum in NYC. His work was considered too "commercial" by the "Fine Art crowd, and it was not considered to be true fine art, but I saw some things they did not and told him that. The second time I met him at a Met's baseball game. My mother always loved this painting and hung it in her den. She died the same day as the Haitian earthquake and sadly will never get to see my work much appreciated, except by people coming to visit her house. I later slowly switched from painting the more classic Impressionistic landscape "Dot" paintings that I had been making for the past 3 years, such as the "Lamp Post", to do more action works like this. I eventually even started doing large action paintings in front of crowds at art openings as performance art, but it all goes back to that painting. Unbelievably at the time Jackson Pollack's style was mostly forgotten and paintings such as these Performance Action paintings brought back a major interest. My "Fisherman" probably was an in between piece. Eventually, I feel I have melded the two abstract styles into my works and combined the realistic aspects, as well.

Compliments:

	sula: Very beautiful.I love the colours in your work.!!!! Posted Aug 10, 2008 10:36pm
	DeShawn Robinson: Beautiful work! Posted Aug 11, 2008 4:22am
	marco10: Nice,it almost looks like your looking through water. Posted Aug 28, 2008 7:07pm
	FahadArt: Very Beautiful work!!! Posted Aug 30, 2008 11:31am
	mas: i like it Posted Sep 9, 2008 9:06pm
	José García y Más: The favourite of the day !!!!!!!!!!! Posted Sep 30, 2008 8:22am
	Ali M. Ismael : trés bien........ merci Posted Nov 27, 2008 11:45pm
	ozippal: Beautiful!!! Posted Mar 14, 2009 1:58pm
	Fernanda Cruz: I agree with your friends: beautiful!!! Posted May 21, 2009 10:00pm
	androart: excellent! A trip to surreal world. Posted Jan 7, 2010 9:22pm
	SOLORZANO: Magnificent painting. An excellent sense of the color Posted Feb 11, 2010 10:00pm
	gretehagen: Love the colors !! Posted May 20, 2010 7:23pm