Beautiful World
Original art. Acrylic on canvas.
Responses (4)
February 03, 2022
Jesus Nunez Rabano’s Beautiful World’s kaleidoscopic diffused blocks of color wind up the canvas in thick snake-like avenues of pigment. The gestural applications of paint are balanced by the constraints of the curving forms containing them. Without the negative space between the two primary shapes, the varied and explosive palette would overwhelm the viewer and drown them in an incomprehensible sea of color.
Rabano expertly uses negative space to balance the tonally wild instances of paint and create something out of nothing. From what I can tell (and don’t take my word for it! This is as much of a question to the artist as speculation), the white of the "empty" space is too activated and matted to be the bare surface of the actual canvas. Regardless, the negative space is as a part of the painting as the colorful veins. It finds its own form in relation to theirs and vice versa.
February 03, 2022
Jesus Nunez Rabano’s Beautiful World’s kaleidoscopic diffused blocks of color wind up the canvas in thick snake-like avenues of pigment. The gestural applications of paint are balanced by the constraints of the curving forms containing them. Without the negative space between the two primary shapes, the varied and explosive palette would overwhelm the viewer and drown them in an incomprehensible sea of color.
Rabano expertly uses negative space to balance the tonally wild instances of paint and create something out of nothing. From what I can tell (and don’t take my word for it! This is as much of a question to the artist as speculation), the white of the "empty" space is too activated and matted to be the bare surface of the actual canvas. Regardless, the negative space is as a part of the painting as the colorful veins. It finds its own form in relation to theirs and vice versa.
- Category
- Abstract
- Type
- Painting - Unframed
- Materials
- Acrylic, Canvas
- Dimensions
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30.00 inches wide
40.00 inches tall
1.00 inches deep - Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Location
- Summit, NJ, US