by Juan Manuel Alvarez-Ossa

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Unwrapping the holiday season : an abstraction.

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This work is about happiness, the holidays, the unwrapping of a gift during the holidays. There are two movements opposing each other. The box -that may also represent "home"- falls or enters the scene from a corner, depending on how it is viewed, and the golden squares -representing the "three wise kings" that come in to counterbalance the motion created by the unwrapping box across from the other side. The opposing moves are highlighted by the growing golden squares that walk calmly into the box and find there, in the mist of the reds, their place. The growing golden squares representing the wise kings seem to march slowly into the stage and come into view each one at a time, with the small one that gives depth to the journey they have accomplished. These two movements are counterbalanced by a third one coming from the painting itself.

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