Abstract art #235

by artist Theo Dapore

extra-large triptych three canvas panel sectional set

Original acrylic 72 inches width by 30  inches height

or roughly 180 width by 75 height centimeters

Back wrapped canvases with painted sides.

This painting was painted in a unique way.

The artist Theo Dapore to date is 55 year old.

He has had back problems off and on for many years.

This was his final painting for the day. He had produced two

painting prior and had already put in 10 hours.

Most of his paintings are wet into wet painted flat on a low table.

With his back aching he could not bear to bend over the 30 inches

to reach the top of the painting and repetitively cross hatch and blend.

Grabbing a squeeze bottle of phaltho blue that had been thinned with water.

He squired  the mixture on the three canvas set in horizontal lines.

(The linage is evident in the upper part of the painting.)

Squirting another bottle of some type of water mixture over the whole

of the triptych. Then taking a broom that was in the corner of the studio.

This was a cheap dollar store broom with course plastic bristles. He put the broom

into a pale of straight water and mopped over the painting. This didn’t surprise me in the least.

I’ve seen Theo paint with scraps of Styrofoam. Remnants, that is the material he uses to ship all paintings in.

Plastic that the canvas comes wrapped in.

Foam rubber, wood pieces, thin aluminium

and I’ve seen him take hands full of paint slap it on a canvas and finger paint.

Anyhow, after getting the blue on the canvas Theo put the broom into

a two gallon container of white gesso. And abstracted the waterfall with a few simple

broad strokes of the broom.

He was happy with the outcome of the painting and

relieved he didn’t have to bend over with the long handle of the broom.

The painting was listed with boundlessgallery.com.

Boundless gallery is no longer online.

About a week later the painting was purchased.

The buyer  is a professor of bio-chemistry

located in Stockholm, Sweden.