Landings – Bald Eagle – GICLEE CANVAS – AP 6/19

30″ x 37.5″

“The bald eagle is already an arresting bird with its size, stern countenance,
position in the feeding chain and strong contrasting coloring.

I have extrapolated the theater of the bald eagle into a basically calligraphic
black and white dramatic study. The white negative shapes
are not “nothing” – they are as important as the black shapes.

I have a “gut” positive reaction to Japanese calligraphy
(much more than the tighter Chinese calligraphy). I have the same aesthetic
reaction to the abstracts of Franz Kline. This was behind my original concept
and decisions in this painting.” 

May Common