RODRIGO MOYNIHAN'S SHOW
(1910-1990)

Rodrigo Moynihan's
color fields
open up our eyes
to be revealed
in a Bohemian show
of abstract abstraction
that gave to this fellow
no regrets in the shadows
at his "Yellow and Violets"
for at the Robert Miller
gallery in the Big Apple
there was much satisfaction
in his prospective
of still like nudes
and voluminous sitting figures
which precludes
a future retrospective
like "Dead Trees at thee Lake,"
the gorgeous"Blue Drawing"
or his geometric shapes
admired by the critics
such as the English poet
David Gascoyne said
"his paintings are monochrome
yet luminous, an abstraction
from color and light;
Rodrigo always makes
to a fellow like me
feel at home in a familiarity
for his paintings
on a series "British Dome"
or at his water color box
with brush
at a violent brutish war effort
rushing in
on his own language
of traced camouflage in blocks
or at his drips and splatter
of his early portraits
where faces matter
hidden in silent liquid
and pearly finish
there is a choice transcendence
which gives resuming voice
to a new proto abstract
expressionism in memory
from a prism of a photograph
as he returns to his beginning
to the docks
at the blue sea
of the Canary Islands
as the first choice critic
Robert Rosenblum said
as he lends his voice
of his abstractions in "Soap"
he found "the wrong end
of the telescope,
his painting lunges at you
lands in his own matting
with plastic samples
paper towels
cotton batting.