W-HOLY GRAFITTI: "PARADISE IN BLUE"
Spring is in the air and Marketplace Gallery in Trinidad, Colorado is celebrating the change of season with the vision of birds.
And, in response to the bird quest
of Spring, this large painting is orchastrated as
one, but using two canvases joined. A DIPTYCH painting. I played with the title in what I call "W-Holy Grafitti," reflecting the name of my Facebook art page W-Holy Artists. Arise!
I have been inspired with the grafitti like paitings of Jean-Michel Basquiat His work is classified as Neo-expressionism and Primitivism. He was born December 22, 1960 but died August 12, 1988.
Such a short life. Yet his work is studied today and seen in New York galleries. He used his grafitti and arwork to get his message across. As a Christian, I too, want to get my message across.
Basquiat has inspired me so much that I am playing with the idea of inserting, in some of my work, the rough proclaimations of my own grafitti. The writing of exhortation, cries and praise phrases and meaningful words that sing in my heart. I am enjoying the quest!
