In homage to Bizet who died unappreciated from a broken heart, Max exposed with the brush the fiery colors, undulating images, symbols of raw passion, of the opera "Carmen" and in particular of the song "El Toreodores" with Carmen at the center of the stage.
From Max Shertz' Essays "Frontiers of Ecstasy"
When I am journeying into the inner artist, I find myself reflecting a gold light which anoints me, and I become the shaman, a priest of the primitive, on an elevated passage of creation.
- Subject Matter: Abstract
- Created: 1999
- Collections: Works of the 90's