Fifth Street Painting PO5.65 by Caio Fonseca

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Fifth Street Painting PO5.65
Fifth Street Painting PO5.65 ( USA 2005 )
CAIO FONSECA (born 1959)

Medium

Gouache on gesso-prepared paper

Dimensions

33.00cm wide 25.40cm high (12.99 inches wide  10.00 inches high)

Description / Expertise

The titles of Fonseca’s abstract paintings and drawings are divided into two groups. They indicate where he executed a particular work - either in Pietrasanta, on the Tuscan coast, or at his Fifth Street studio in Manhatten. Like Paul Klee, he is both a visual artist and a gifted musician. He admires Bach, Brahms and Schoenberg and can often be heard playing the piano in a room next to his studio. This gouache illustrates his awareness of the stylistic similarities between the compositional structure of his drawings (and paintings) and the form of a musical score.