Category: 2021 paintings

• “The unraveling”.

  

  The intention behind my paintings (notably my self-portraits) is to explore story-telling through visual imagery, accompanied by short essays. The paintings are essentially free-standing, but after having gotten so many questions about both what my inspiration behind my paintings is and about how I achieved various effects, I have chosen to supplement my paintings with texts which address these questions.…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  March 3, 2021

  2021 paintings, abstract figurative paintings, abstract portraiture, Adam Donaldson Powell’s self-portraits, Impressionist self-portrait, Post-Impressionist self-portrait, The process of Creativity

  Adam Donaldson Powell’s sel-portraits, Impressionist self-portrait, Post-Impressionist self-portrait, The process of Creativity

• Breaking through.

  

    “Breaking through”, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm., 2021, is a two-sided black-and-white minimalistic self-portrait about breaking through the barrier of White Supremacy. The white barrier seems impenetrable and all-consuming, and the only ticket is convincing Supremacists that non-Whites are enough like them to warrant acceptance. But acceptance is neither a given, nor…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  March 1, 2021

  2021 paintings, abstract figurative paintings, Paintings for social awareness, Paintings with political themes, Self-portrait, White Supremacy

  abstract figurative paintings, Adam Donaldson Powell’s self-portraits, Paintings with political themes, White Supremacy