Crash,_By_Linda_Bacon

Crash, By Linda Bacon Upon initially viewing Linda Bacon’s oil painting, “Crash”, one witnesses a chaotic jumble of activity. There is a tall wooden man standing with one leg poised on a sleek red car. That car is one of three others that appeared to have some sort of “crash”. A small man is running from his car to another with a scowl look on his face. Just behind the wreck a steel blue car is speeding away from the scene. Farther up the road a large red truck is abruptly making its way over the hill and into the direction of the crash. Above the truck, the sky is a mixture of pinks and blues except for in the upper right corner where it appears a storm is raging. Finally, surrounding both sides of the country road, lush green grass pierced with barbed wire fence and telephone poles fades into the distance. There are many things that can be interpreted from this work of art and just as many inferences can be made about the artist’s intentions. First off, the large wooden man on the left is clearly one object that seems out of place in this piece. It seems as if he is car, one, crash, truck, red, piece, man, cars, three, painting, paint, objects, just, wooden, way, small, sky, look, appears, tall, sort, seems, road, out, others, moving, looking, large, green, blue, away, wire, wheels, ways, very, two