Buscando La Melodia (Looking for The Melody)

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$5,400.00

I was in a house in Varadero beach, Cuba and during the early afternoon musicians came to play and I was struck by the presence of a woman playing the tres guitar. Usually I have always seen male musicians playing this instrument. So I wanted to represent it in my painting.

The title, "Buscando la Melodia", comes from a song popularized by the great Cuban singer, Benny More.

THE TRES is a three-course chordophone of Cuban origin. The most widespread variety of the instrument is the original Cuban tres with six strings. Its sound has become a defining characteristic of the Cuban son and it is commonly played in a variety of Afro-Cuban genres

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Joseph Balletta Artist

May 06, 2022

I like this piece because its clarity and cubistic sense stops any transpersonal metaphors by demanding a focal point that gives priority to the small over the large something that is so often not presented in many works. One must find content and its meaning in the immediacy of this works design its structure. It is starkly more pictorial then narrative and because of that one has to find any associative meaning in the design itself and again not so much in any metaphorical references tangential to the picture!