BEACH FIGURES

Goodnough, Robert

Oil on Canvas

1962

Poindexter Collection

X1966.04.05

This painting centers around a concentration of abstracted figures that are depicted in bright yellow, red and a brilliant green. All are outlined with a geometric drippy black border that reaffirms their shapes, though by no means constricting the paint to these divided spaces. The background in the picture is restricted to black and whites with light blues and a more intense passage of blue that hovers around the figures. All through the painting there is evidence of underpainting, most notably above the figures where half a dozen circular shapes assert themselves from beneath a veil of light blue gray that drips down the surface of the painting and onto aspects of the figures.