"The Mask of Play"
As a lover of opera and a retired opera singer, I love to try to capture moments from the genre. in Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" (The Clowns), the broken hearted Canio has to go on stage and mke his audience laugh. I have tried to capture the character about to make his entrance on to a stage upon the stage. Or is it just a singing actor plying his trade?
About the Artist
Joe Johnson
I am very much a self taught painter other than as a boy watching my father who was an excellent portrait painter. I painted a lot in the 1980's and completed a number of commissions including one or two Crufts winners (The dogs that is !). Painting time became scarce and I put the easel away for…
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