King Kong 1969

Gene Davis made King Kong with stripes of color that just sing. I imagine him, brush loaded, stepping up to the canvas, maybe even dancing a little. The thing about stripes, right? They seem simple, but each one is a decision, a breath. Look at that juicy pink next to the olive green—bam! It's like a chord, a musical interval. I bet Davis was thinking about rhythm and space as much as color. What's cool is how the painting becomes a field of vision, almost like a landscape. You can get lost in it. It's like he’s saying, "Hey, let’s just see what happens when we put these colors next to each other." That's what painters do; we keep the conversation going, trying to find new ways to see.