Not for the meek, Kinnett's floral paintings are explosions of color. They are very complex, often cramming three or four layers of loosely drawn organic patterns into the flat space of a medium sized canvas. Sometimes consistent and sometimes purposefully inconsistent, the overlap of forms and the color refuse to create a deep space. Even the negative spaces are animated and intensified. Fragmented, covered with heavily outlined shapes, and textured with heavy imposto, these paintings are organic synthetic cubism. They are art that has both structure and passion.
Industrious Fern and Purple Fragrance explore the tilted horizon of Marc Train from the Biomorphic Landscape series, while In The Spin of The Sun has a multiple perspective that leaves the viewer floating in a mystical sky. After the Goosedownder has the "All Over" random pattern quality of a Jackson Pollock, and Woodlawn Ave. has a quality of folk art furniture painting with its' flowers floating on a dark background. Cheryl's Passion was created from sketches and photographs of a neighbors garden. It is hallucinogenic. The flowers in Flowers Au Go Go and Floral Language twist, turn, and dance across the canvases. There are kinships to stained glass painting, crazy quilts, tapestries, Post Impressionist and Art Nouveau posters, and psychedelic art of the 1960's.
While very calculated and controlled in their form and color, these florals are nevertheless fresh, spontaneous, and lyrical. Most of all, they are splendors of color.
Flowers Au Go Go
Acrylic & oil on canvas 1996
23 x 31" $900
Floral Language
Oil on canvas 1996
31 x 38" $1,300
Industrious Fern
Oil on canvas 1996
25 x 26" $600
Purple Fragrance
Acrylic & oil on cotton paper 1996
32 x 40" Framed
24 x 30" Image $600© 1997
Doug Kinnett
Manna Machine
304-876-3819
