afternoon ride

gauguin precededent

archival record: figure: mounted. posture: composed. facing the viewer directly. iconographic inventory: wide-brim hat. suspenders. neckerchief. frontier landscape. white horse. solar body. the myth arrived fully assembled.
chromatic inventory: cobalt (hat). chartreuse to deep green (gloves, pants). cream yellow (shirt). pink red (neckerchief). background field: sustained pink dominating the full atmospheric register. ground plane: chromatic yellow. cloud formation: peach orange. the horse is white — the single unrepainted element in the composition. its bridle: burnt orange. lead rope: lavender. the assigned palette of the american frontier is absent. the iconography is intact. the chromatic correction has been applied in full.

filed under: rogue colorist. chromatic subversion. chromatic gender critique. contemporary western painting. americana. figurative non-conformity.