Category: Paintings-Small

This section showcases small paintings. Since the purpose of this website is to archive Amy Ione’s work from the 1970s to the present, both successful and less successful work is displayed. For more information about any of the works, click on the caption below the painting or send an email.

Homage to Paul Klee (Blue Night) #2 (2018)

Homage to Paul Klee (Blue Night) #2 (2018)

This intimate tribute to Paul Klee’s 1937 Blue Night (Blaue Nacht) is a part of a diptych, with Homage to Paul Klee (Blue Night) #1 comprising the other panel. Both works celebrate Klee’s fascination with how one can manipulate abstract possibilities in both art and music. Therefore, it too reflects a fusion of abstraction and poetic nuance. Together, the two 8-inch panels of the diptych demonstrate how Klee’s musical methodology can manifest through contrasting formal vocabularies, one staccato and architectural, the other legato and organic. Continue reading “Homage to Paul Klee (Blue Night) #2 (2018)”

Homage to Paul Klee (Blue Night) #1 (2018)

Homage to Paul Klee (Blue Night) #1

Homage to Paul Klee (Blue Night) #1 is an intimate tribute to Paul Klee’s 1937 Blue Night (Blaue Nacht) painting. Like Klee’s work, this piece reflects a fusion of abstraction and poetic nuance. One noteworthy quality is how the homage to Klee asserts a contemporary rhythm through its presentation of a geometric composition built entirely from straight lines and angular forms. Continue reading “Homage to Paul Klee (Blue Night) #1 (2018)”

Alter Ego

Ink and oil on panel.
Alter Ego

An alter ego is an alternate self. This small painting isn’t an alter ego in the sense that it is distinct from my true creative personality, but stylistically it is somewhat of a detour.

 

 

 

 
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