“Balance” a Contemporary Oil Painting with Figurative and Literal Renditions of the Term

I began to wrestle with the ways that balance presents itself in the world.  So many different ways and means of representing balance.  Perhaps the most obvious began as the balance between male and female.  Each needs the other in spite of the way in which either sex may denigrate the other.  Balance demonstrated in different ways between the sexes is part of the natural world.  Then I began to play with the composition.  The moon and the red ball balance one another in form.  Red, such a powerful color, balances itself in the way it is positioned and with the other colors.  Vertical line, horizontal line, diagonal line—all play a part in balance.

 

If only the world could balance itself in the way that it treats and governs people!

 

Balance, Oil on Canvas , 36” X 36” (gallery wrap)

 

Copyright Charlotte Shroyer 2014