young cowboy

american rodeo precedent

archival record: male figure. bust portrait. direct forward gaze. slight rightward turn. yellow-green cowboy hat with decorative band. fringe detail on chest. deep purple leather jacket. blue chambray shirt. curled hair at collar. high-chroma teal ground. the figure is young. the iconography is fully intact. the palette assigned to this archetype was not consulted.
chromatic inventory: face rendered in high-chroma magenta and pink with teal and orange accent marks. hat in yellow-green. jacket in deep saturated purple. shirt in cobalt blue. ground in full teal saturation. no earth tones. no raw umber. no burnt sienna. no graphite. the assigned palette of the american frontier is absent.
the chromatic correction applied to the rigor of youth.

filed under: rogue colorist. chroma cowboys. contemporary western painting. americana. chromatic gender critique. chromatic subversion. matisse chromatic precedent. western portraiture. youth. frontier iconography.