The Dunk Shot
The dunk shot is a good reason we go to basketball games. It’s the same reason some go to the ballet. We want to see the basketball player fly. We are not as much interested in seeing the ground game with a guy dribble a ball down the court. What we want to see the spectacular leaps and bounds, the jumps (Superman flying, the sun coming up over the horizon), the amazing ability to defy gravity. That’s what we want to see - the dunk shot.
And we want to see it done with a basketball in the basketball player’s hands. We love “the air game” with the basketball grasped in the hand of a player reaching above the rim for the dunk.
We want to see the basketball player takeoff from the baseline and the long soaring outreach of the hand with a grip on the ball and to hear the swish of the net. That is what we want to see.
And in this basketball painting of a hand about to dunk a basketball I am trying to capture that feeling of what it is like to watch a high flying bomber about to smash a basketball through the net.
The basketball art is 60” by 84” acrylic on unstretched canvas. This means there are no stretcher bars or frame. It is meant to hang like a tapestry or banner. Available for sale.
