Carnaval negro
Artist
Luis A. Maisonet Ramos
(Puerto Rican, born 1952)
Date1999
Object number2023.2698.2
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions50 x 49 3/4 in. (127 x 126.4 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc. Gift of collection Reyes-Veray.
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DescriptionThis work belongs to a series of paintings by Maisonet Ramos from the late twentieth century that capture abstract shapes and silhouettes alongside elements reminiscent of festivals. The painting's clean contours are similar to those produced by the silkscreen printing, a technique in which the artist excels. In this work, a multitude of organic, irregular, and geometric shapes, whose differences in appearance and size evoke the randomness of confetti strewn at festivities and carnivals, float against a black background. Face profiles, feet, hands, and other parts of the human anatomy are presented in a deconstructed, distorted way, bridging the gap between abstract and figurative art in this composition. The agglomeration of figures in a limited space and the perspective created at the center of the painting (achieved through the inclusion of smaller shapes) allude to the frenzy of multitudinous events.
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