(Actual Size) *
Two Curves
Price $90 Catalog No. 01F29-11 SOLD
3 1/2" x 2 1/2" Painting in gouache on Fabriano watercolor paper
* This and other paintings of this size are framed in thin gold metal frames with 2 1/2" of gray double matting having 3 1/2" weighted bases with a resulting overall size of 9" x 9"
As I began to paint "Two Curves," I vacillated between its
current title and another having more to do with Man's
attempt at duplicating "natural" elements in architecture.
Its first title was simply -- "Man's attempts." But I was
more interested in the simpler title of "Two Curves" because
it was beautiful how the curve of the moon and the curve of
the reconstructed parabola "answered" one another in terms
of their design and placement. This is a very simple
painting and I have intentionally not filled the sky with a
maze of stars. The violet sky with its complimentary
colored (yellow) moon go well together. The curves are both
"relaxed" looking. The original plan to focus more on
something "of Man's" creation was set aside for another
painting. It has been included though. The parabola is a
curve found so often in nature. Man has used it to build
Gothic arches in tall churches. He has also used it in his
calculations to "whip" distant scientific satellites around
large planets so they can gain extremely high speed, sending
them farther out into space.
Both curves are slightly different in their arcs. Man's
curve is busy with color. Nature's moon curve is
appropriately just one.