Weekend Getaway V2. Acrylic pop art painting
The couple are caught in a shootout. The man falls backwards, his eyeline directed upwards and his right hand wide open, probably where a gun should have been, together suggesting that he has just been shot.
The woman runs from the scene, turning to fire in the direction from which they are fleeing. Her face shows little emotion, a professional calm that implies she has survived this before.
A Falling man and flying bullets
Although in jeopardy from the falling man and flying bullets, she might also be considering that she now needs a new accomplice.
The man is exaggerated in proportion, and his bright blue suit creates a stark contrast against the flattening effect of Doug’s signature check and the overlying grid pattern of her jacket and vivid red hair.
*Artist Doug Kemp with the Weekend Getaway v2 Painting
A skirt’s tile-like pattern
Her skirt’s tile-like pattern gives the appearance of shadow and structure, created simply through the predominance of darker green “tiles” on the underside.
Streaks of stylised lightning cut through the dark sky, amplifying the turbulence of the scene.
Doug stages the violence as theatre, with apparently indifferent bystanders watching as though they are spectators at a dramatic performance.
