Jack Whitten was a young African-American artist who originally grew up in the south, and came to New York in 1960. During this time, abstract art was greatly popular. As with this painting, everything about it to me says "abstract". When you first look at the image, it is almost hard to know where to first settle your eyes. For me, I am first drawn to the orange face in the middle of the painting. As I begin to look around the image, you can see the many other formed faces in the art, and well as some other random shapes and objects. I actually like this piece by Whitten because it is almost like he was just painting whatever came to his mind. It doesn't seem like there is much order to it. Also, I like the way that he used many different colors to make everything pop out in its own way.
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