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In this complex composition, Alex depicts a familiar sight in the tropics—a dense jungle-like grove of banana trees. Hundreds of carefully painted banana leaves overlap, forming a lush green tapestry of fronds. Drawing from both realist and color field schools of painting, Bananas combines impasto brushwork with countless bright layers of color and individually applied glazes. If you click on the detail below, note that you are viewing a portion of Bananas enlarged to only 40% of the actual size of the original painting; a far greater degree of detail is visible in the original and in the prints.
