‘COBALT IN OCHRE’/acrylic/gunther
September 30, 2019
By Arthur H. Gunther III
Sometimes what you look at is not what you see, like when you dream and the events are not reality. In both “readings,” the perceptions already gathered in an individual’s life direct the show.
Is this painting a cobalt blue window in a yellow ochre field, an inner frame of red and brown? Well, yes, literally. But what sort of tune do those colors play on your senses, given your hue preferences in a gathered life? Do you want a window in cobalt blue? If you open it, is there color beyond?
And if you look tomorrow, will it all be different?
The writer is a retired newspaperman. ahgunther@yahoo.com