Dick Bellamy Remembered -- Dick in Repose, 1990 48 3/4 x 34 x 3

This painting, as most of my paintings uses a photograph as a sketch. I was thinking about Matisse and his painting "la conversation sous les oliviers, 1921 and other Matisse's landscapes. Simplifying the landscape into shapes. This painting is truly a cut-out painting where the forms and shapes actually are similar to the forms and shapes of the image.

Generally, in my tectonic paintings I want the 3-dimensional cut-outs to be totally different from the forms in the representional painting. The abstracted forms refer to, perhaps the forms seen under a microscope that makeup the larger structures of our visual world. Therefore, these abstracted forms have a life of their own, although imbedded in the image of the painting, making the painting both representational and abstract at once.

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