Jo Farris
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    • Tango
    • Painting as a Connection
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Tango Series

to be close and to touch       
​I’ve had a 30-year love affair with tango music. Its history is intriguing as it shifts from the early 1900s African Argentine dramatic rhythms through the 1940 immigration infusing it with a mood of loss and longing. During the mid-twentieth century Astor Piazzolla brought his revolutionary music to Buenos Aires.  It was his symphonic collaboration with inventive percussion that crept into my painting practice.  The music demands passion … abrupt mark making, staccato twirls. Sensual colors are an explosion of life on each panel drawing the viewer across the room to be close and to touch.
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Tango Nuero – 42x42
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Canyengue – 40x30
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Tango de Salon – 36x36
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Milonguero – 36x36
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La Cumparsita – 36x36
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