Cardona-Hine Cuban Dancer 41 x 31
Cardona-Hine’s Cuban Dancer exploits Latin rhythms to create a figure that is both elegant and flamboyant. The expanse of blue speaks for the sea, and the sun has ended black in tune with the African background of the dancer. Basic to the painting is a dynamic use of feminine curves everywhere except for the horizon, the only masculine element, which partially penetrates the waistline of the figure. Like his other figures, we have here an elemental person, not a real one.
McCauley Windy Day 24 x 29
Windy Day contains not only the energy and presence of the wind, but the balletic pose and elegance of the figure, both of which balance the painting’s surface and field. The colors also are balanced, but with an intuitive force rather than a thought-out plan. Like Alvaro, I approach the canvas with my own blankness, entering what begins to appear and drawing it out. I might have some idea that I’m thinking of a figure rather than a landscape, say, but, other than that it is all wide open. That is what gives the painting its spontaneity and life force, and what makes painting for both of us the great delight it is.
Windy Day is now in its permanent home with a wonderful couple in their home in Santa Fe.
