mutande knickers pants of barga
mutande knickers pants of barga
mutande knickers pants of barga
mutande knickers pants of barga
mutande knickers pants of barga
mutande knickers pants of barga
mutande knickers pants of barga
mutande knickers pants of barga
mutande knickers pants of barga
mutande knickers pants of barga
What you notice, before anything else, is that the subjects of Keane`s brush have an unlikely beauty. They are banners aflutter in the shifting Garfagnana winds, their allegiances announced in the language of high art: color, form, composition, kinetic tension. Their subtext is the wonderful diversity of human experience, ranging from the dizzyingly erotic to the downright practical, and capturing, as graphically as could be imagined, our collective journey from infant to elderly. Mutande, their Italian name, is derived from the verb mutare, "to change" -- and it seems far closer to the remarkably dignified spirit of these paintings than its giggling English equivalent, "knickers." frank viviano

 

 

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