Painting titled "Poppies IV" by Anthony Oliver, Original Artwork

Poppies IV Painting by Anthony Oliver

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Original Artwork Painting, on Canvas

Artworks classification

Original Artwork

Original Artwork refers to any work that is considered authentic and not a copy or imitation of the original works of an artist. Original artwork can be any type of painting, sculpture, performance, or other media. There are many types of original media. Mixed media includes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings. For workshop paintings that bear evidence of master craftsmanship, this attribution must be further qualified. While they may be less valuable for different reasons, reproductions and copies have had a tremendous impact on our experience. They reach a greater audience than originals and act as a tonic against commodification. Original Artwork could also refer to the first work, which is always preceding all others. It could also refer to a prototype or a model from which other works can be made. Each work bears great similarities to the original.
Dimensions Height 59.1in, Width 59.1in
Categories Figurative

Influenced by reading history, fact & fiction from the first world war.Poems were also an influence :The following is by Apollinaire from " Calligrammes" rendered here in an easier to read format than the oiginal.

La colombe poignardée et le jet d'eau""

Douces figures poignardées chères lèvres fleuries
Mya Mareye
Yette et Lorie
Annie et toi Marie
Où êtes-vous ô jeunes filles
Mais près d'un jet d'eau qui pleure et qui prie
Cette colombe s'extasie

Tous les souvenirs de naguère
O mes amis partis en guerre
Jaillissent vers le firmament
Et vos regards en l'eau dormant
Meurent mélancoliquement
Où sont-ils Braque et Max Jacob
Derain aux yeux gris comme l'aube
Où sont Raynal Billy Dalize
Dont les noms se mélancolisent
Comme des pas dans une église
Où est Cremnitz qui s'engagea
Peut-être sont-ils morts déjà
De souvenirs mon âme est pleine
Le jet d'eau pleure sur ma peine.
Ceux qui sont partis à la guerre
au Nord se battent maintenant
Le soir tombe Ô sanglante mer
Jardins où saignent abondamment
le laurier rose fleur guerrière.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Figurative

Figurative and colorful painting having taken the liberty of including all forms of art without border of cultural genre and geographic origin, without hierarchy of values between high and subculture.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

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Flower Colour Oil Painting Artist

Anthony Oliver

Belgium

Delivery is free in Belgium . Oil paintings are ready to hang , signed / titled / and dated on reverse . A certificate of authenticity comes with all work . I can make framing suggestions for work on paper if you wish . Where image resolution permits photographic work can be printed to very large sizes with repect to image ratio.
About me the ...: I am a British painter based in Brussels since '95 .I live and work in a big industrial building, an artist's community, in the city centre. I first tried oil painting when I was 13 and few days have gone by without me picking up a brush since. What I loved about oil painting as a teenager , the smell , the glossy colour , the fascinating names of the pigments and the amazing ways I could spread it around, I still love now. Painting has also retained for me its enduring fascination beyond its physical properties. Its infinite world of possibilities never fails to amaze me . This oily medium is capable of generating an endless variety of physical & emotional responses even though the subject matter is clichéd or mundane.Proof , if it were needed , of the enduring power of meaning in an old medium in a time of image gluttony.

My medium is as traditional as is my imagery: people, landscape, nature and interiors.Places , people and scenes we see everyday. The ordinary is extraordinary enough for me.
It is in the process of painting them that they become other. It is through painting that small things are revealed to me. It is when painting and on the cusp of disaster that magic can occur .I am prepared to let it lead me to places where I did not intend to go .

I make paintings but do not compartementalise myself , create labels or make a pre- determined history for what the painting must look like. To do so would be to shut the doors on the unexpected and it is precisely the unexpected and a willingness to embrace the accidental which can open minds and reveal a beauty impossible to think up or plan beforehand