Recognitions cover art for penguin edition 1993 "the mellow pad"

[Richard Ryan]

Nice - thanks Ed!  It will be interesting to see if there's some
apparent "tonal" connection between the painting and the novel.


On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:21 PM,  <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Mellow Pad (turns out this painting is derivative from painter's
> "original")
>
> The starting point for this lively patterned abstraction was an
> earlier canvas by Stuart Davis entitled House and Street, 1931.
> Treating each subsequent version as a riff on a jazz theme,
> Davis moved further and further away from his original composition
> to establish independent, rhythmic color patterns that retained only
> a few direct visual cues to the original composition. Davis theorized that
> abstract compositions could communicate to the viewer something of the
> subject from which they were derived. This composition embodies the
> “mellow pad”—jazz lingo for the “cool” place to be. Jazz rhythms were
> a potent inspiration for Davis, and their presence added a distinctly
> American component to his abstractions.
>
>
> ed



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