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Teeny Weeny Puccini (#2)

Steve Justice Studio Title: Teeny Weeny Puccini (#2) Material: Oil on canvas Size: 48x48 Year: 2017 Sold
Title: Teeny Weeny Puccini (#2)
Material: Oil on canvas
Size: 48×48
Year: 2017     Sold

God touched me with His little finger and said ‘Write for the theatre, only for the theatre.’     — Giacomo Puccini

The accompanying quotation sparked this portrait of the artist between God and man (in this painting, as if rendered by Michelangelo). Puccini was a quiet and reserved man who wrote loud music for 100-piece orchestras and shrieking women.

I use classic Italian shapes and Eastern circle, for a splash of Orientalism.   The Italian flag colors create the smooth stone tile beneath every Italian’s Farragamo’s. The red and green become less saturated and more satinated at the corners, for a sense of costumery and fashion.

With such relaxing color and that Vitruvian structure, Giacomo’s not going anywhere, so he sits at a café, leaning on the center-line while trying to keep score between cups. The chair that’s depicted is one of the two hair-pin chairs I’ve used in my studio as an easel for the past 30 years.

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