" Fathers and Children , Melody N6 "

Five men in long traditional coats and white headwraps are gathered on a rocky mountaintop: two play long flutes, one plays a smaller pipe, another squeezes an accordion, and a fifth stands holding a sheep by the horns. White sheep and a horned goat crowd the foreground, while jagged violet peaks and a green sky stretch behind the group.

Forms are faceted into angular, crystalline planes of red, green, brown and deep blue, the palette pushed to saturated, almost unnatural intensity against the acid-green sky. Hard-edged, flattened brushwork and sharp geometric folds in the clothing replace naturalistic modeling, giving the mountain gathering a bold, decorative energy and a festive, ceremonial charge.