Impatientism

by J Randall & R Wisdom

1' x 2'
Acrylic & Crayon on Canvas
2007

$280




C.E. Gogh is the insidious leader of the anti-globalization union private equity underground.  He sits at the table of his basement corner office smoking cigarettes and plotting the next embargo.

Ray began the painting by sketching John with an oil crayon on the 1' x 2' canvas that Ray long ago vowed he would make into a portrait.  John sat idly by while Ray sketched.  When he saw his likeness on the canvas he remarked, "That's actually not a bad sketch."  But he knew how to make it better—paint it in.  The duo instantly launched into a pseudo-impatientist background and fill-in session in which Ray painted in the table, the cigarettes on the table, somebody's phone, an ashtray, and a couple of orange chairs.  John added warrior face paint — subtle, subversive, and negotiation-proof — to the C.E. Gogh's face.  From there he stitched in a green tie and a green outline of the Gogh's shirt before he then began dropping huge amounts of pink gray and white on the walls behind C.E. Gogh and with a brush added a Van Gogh-style wallpaper encircling the C.E. Gogh, attune to his every insurgent thought.  Ray then managed to create a beautiful periwinkle type blue to serve as his carpet but also, when considered with the chair, evokes a sunset scene, as one would see from the Inner Bay in the San Francisco area.  Is this the location of C.E. Gogh's ultra-top-secret hideout?  No one knows, no one could say if he knew.

Now and then denizens of the Bay Area will claim to have seen the C.E. Gogh.  As in, Have you seen the C.E. Gogh?  His status is mythical, like Sasquatch or Amelia Earhart.