Leopold Plotek
Sunday Morning, 2017
oil on linen
68 x 50 in.
172.7 x 127.0 cm
172.7 x 127.0 cm
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'‘Sunday Morning’ was quite deliberately a riff on the Wallace Stevens poem; that is if one can create a riff on something so magnificently complex, rich and allusive. Embarrassing to...
"‘Sunday Morning’ was quite deliberately a riff on the Wallace Stevens poem; that is if one can create a riff on something so magnificently complex, rich and allusive. Embarrassing to say, we painters seem to never fear to tread where even angels do. The painting I completed contains, like a rebus, many of the objects and places Stevens created, at least as they bloomed in my head. Teasing sometimes, compelling at others, these elements had to be comprehended by a space, and light, that could seem plausible. I don’t mind confessing that this was a struggle, nor declaring some pride in what I managed. I’m pretty sure that Stevens is not through with me yet."