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Paintings
palette Homages (2)
Woodstock, NY. 2025
Modern master palettes inspire the color choices.
No representation -
just color fields / action painting
"Life is a wave. Straight lines are an illusion. If the only permanence in life is change, then waves are the most efficient depiction of life’s beauty. "
from Moni Schifler-Azank's essay "Life is a wave"
Wavefield #221, after a Palette by Edvard Munch.
9/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #220, after a Palette by Edvard Munch.
9/2025, 12" x 12", oil on board.
Wavefield #218, after a Palette by Friedensreich Hundertwaser.
8/2025, 12" x 12", oil on board.
Wavefield #216, after a Palette by Egon Schiele.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #219, after a Palette by
Friedensreich Hundertwaser.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #217, after a Palette by Friedensreich Hundertwaser.
8/2025, 12" x 12", oil on board.
Wavefield #215, after a Palette by Egon Schiele.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #214, after a Palette by Gustav Klimt.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
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Wavefield #213, after a Palette by Gustav Klimt.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #212, after a Palette by Gustav Klimt.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #210, after a Palette by Arik Brauer.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #211, after a Palette by Arik Brauer.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
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Alternate View: Wavefield #210.
Wavefield #209, after a Palette by Arik Brauer.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #208, after a Palette by Rembrandt.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #205, after a Palette by Pablo Picasso.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #206, after a Palette by Pablo Picasso.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #204, after a Palette by Pablo Picasso.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #203, after a Palette by Pablo Picasso.
8/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #195, after a Palette by Pierre Bonnard.
7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #194, after a Palette by Odilon Redon.
7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #187, after a Palette by Paul Klee.
7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #188, after a Palette by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
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Alternate View: Wavefield #187.
As far as this writer can see, there is so much investigation to be done of the ever-rich chromatic vocabulary of painting, so traveling with Azank's astute sense of the musicality and form within a palette, it will take you on a journey to a country already traversed and another country altogether newly formed.
And yes, there are many more to come.
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from Lee Klein's "Palette Homages", Village Star-Review, August 2025.
Wavefield #186, after a Palette by Emil Nolde.
7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Alternate View: Wavefield #186
Wavefield #185, after a Palette by Willem De Kooning.
7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
Wavefield #184, after a Palette by Henri Matisse.
7/2025, 12" x 12", 30cm x 30cm, oil on board.
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