Warren Keating

Blue Umbrella and Cowboy, Oil Painting

2022

Artist Comments
Artist Warren Keating connects two expressive overhead scenes of a person holding an umbrella and a cowboy strutting forward. Their cool blue shadows converge and connect the two separate scenes. His aerial viewpoint gives the composition abstracted elements in conveying the movement of the figures. He draws inspiration from his two favorite cities, Paris and Santa Fe. An ode to the iconic characters walking the streets.

About the Artist
Warren Keating's paintings start with documentation. He captures subjects on video from birds-eye views, digitizes the film on his computer and, finally, paints them on canvas in an active style he describes as Pixel Impressionism. He merges artistic elements of the 20th Century with 21st Century technology. Warren credits Futurism as well as Richard Diebenkorn and Willem de Kooning as influences in his paintings. Fun fact: Warren’s inspiration for this series came from a vacation to Paris where he photographed passersby from his hotel balcony in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Words that describe this painting: aerial, perspective, overhead, expressive, figurative, contemporary, Santa Fe, Paris, cowboy, umbrella, panoramic, Southwest, travel, people, oilpaint, impressionism, impressionism, people, oil painting, blue

Blue Umbrella and Cowboy
Warren Keating
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Painting wraps around edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2022
30 in. h x 48 in. w x 1.5 in. d
15 lbs. 0 oz.