Sunset

Sunset

The painting Sunset immediately immerses the viewer in a torrent of flamboyant orange hues. This is not a single color, but a symphony of fire a spectrum that ranges from the deep, smoldering glow of burnt umber at the canvas’s edges to the incandescent, almost white-hot core of the setting sun. Joosten’s technique suggests a dynamic, almost violent application of paint; thick impasto strokes clash with translucent washes, creating a sense of immense heat and turbulent energy.

These colors do not simply lie on the surface; they burst forth in a fiery display that seems to consume the very air before the canvas. Within this conflagration, the New York skyline is not rendered with photographic precision but is instead suggested—a skeletal architecture of stark, vertical lines and geometric shadows emerging from and being subsumed by the light. The skyscrapers are not merely illuminated but appear to be forged anew in the sun’s crucible, their steel and glass melting into the overwhelming radiance. It is a brilliant, passionate farewell, a daily apocalypse that is both an ending and a spectacular promise of renewal.

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Original artwork signed P. Joosten

Acrylic on canvas – dimensions 80 x 80 x 3 cm.

Sold with invoice and certificate of authenticity

May 2019