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I'm going to speak up here as the loyal opposition. I like it a lot, Jerome, and find the color choice very effective. What hits me most about this painting is the energy that carries my eye from the player to the mandolin to the woman. I love the intensity of his concentration on the instrument, and the very active feel of his fingers playing. I love her contrapuntal focus on him, her stillness as opposed to his activeness, and the narrative implication that he is playing for her, even though he is concentrated on the instrument. I like the composition, and especially the almost abstract use of negative spaces that holds it all together. I guess the only thing that troubles me, as it does Allan, is the little tchochke on the left edge that pulls my eye over there without contributing anything either to the "story" or to the composition. -- John C.
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