Impressions

Tony would say: I am the fastest brush in the West... Sometimes his work resembled action painting, dancing in front of the canvas. He liked to paint with an audience, and played to them. Once the public gone he scrutinized his work and felt bad if he had done something just for effect at that moment and then worked with the problem he created. Sometimes he left his painting quasi 'unfinished'. To him all was there. He called it impressionism, knowing that it was not the of impressionism of Manet or Monet. Sometimes Tony Mafia called it expressionism, knowing it wasn't that really, or South Western... In truth he was of no school, not of one direction... He was just a brush. The Bather is an example of a simple but effective painting. You can feel the cold water flowing over her back into the tub. Can't you?