Regents Park 1984

LeRoy Neiman’s "Regents Park" is a vibrant composition of colour and texture. Its spirited brushstrokes immediately convey the energy of a park scene teeming with life and leisure. Neiman structures the painting around a dynamic interplay between foreground and background, using colour to dissolve traditional perspective. The foreground’s gestural abstraction contrasts with the more delineated, though still impressionistic, rendering of the park’s distant features, such as the gate. The overall effect challenges a fixed perception of space. The painting flattens the traditional pictorial space; Neiman seems less interested in representing the park realistically and more intent on capturing its atmosphere through bold, expressive marks. This approach reflects a broader artistic trend toward abstraction, questioning conventional modes of representation. What we see here is a new way of engaging with the world, not through replication, but through energetic interpretation.