painted image

“He’s the little boy in this painting being held by my husband Chris, the beautifully painted image evokes a lot of emotion for me,” she said.

By contrast, Harden’s tiny “melancholia #21” is a dark, thickly painted image of a delicate bird set against atmospheric bands of mottled black, silvery gray and pearlescent purple.

The canvas was as rumpled as last night’s sheets — a lumpy terrain whose painted image was lost in a visual muck of disheveled paint marks, yellowed varnish and all that awful, crackled damage.

“With this project,” said Kazanjian, “it’s almost as if the painted image becomes painted words used to tell the story — because we know that, even after the performance is over, it will live on in the telling.”

There was also a painted image of a thermopolium, complete with amphora and jars.