Apyu 1963

Paul Feeley made *Apyu* with paint on canvas. I can imagine him, brush in hand, starting with a vivid red background. Then, those serpentine lines in blue and yellow—how carefully he must have worked, edging each color against the other to achieve that crisp border. There’s something playful in the way the lines move. They remind me of ribbons, or maybe even a gentle river winding through a landscape. The paint looks applied thinly and evenly which lends the painting a certain clarity. You can really see the hand of the artist in these decisions. Feeley, like many painters, probably looked at Matisse and other colorists. Painting is, after all, a conversation across time. Each artist responds to what came before, adds their own voice, and pushes the dialogue forward. What's the next thing you're going to make?