The NK Nuclear Core High Explosive (2013) Painting by Marcial
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Original Artwork
Painting,
Oil
on Canvas
- Dimensions Height 48in, Width 96in
- Categories Paintings under $20,000
My work is a conceptual post-modern approach based on historical war stories. The centerpiece inside the of nuclear diagram is an american hamburger which in meant to invoke the memory of the famous battle at hamburger hill.
In this painting i wished to act as an objective observer, from a viewpoint completely outside of ourselves, and outside of our planet. With this painting i wanted to approach the subject of war from the viewpoint of an alien race observing human beings anthropologically. As if they were watching over us, waiting for something interesting to happen.
The line drawing is a diagram of a nuclear bomb, in the core of the bomb i've replaced the plutonium with a hamburger. It symbolizes the tragedy of North Korean famine, where their own people were left to starve while the government prioritized the advancement of their nuclear program.
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Marcial Pontillas was born and raised in the Philippines, and moved to Guam in 2011. He is a former Fine Arts College Professor at the Far Eastern University in Manila from 2000 to 2010 and a multi-award winning artist, he had different art exhibitions local and international. Marcial is a contemporary neo-expressionist and a conceptual artist who continues to explore the human spirit with the claustrophobic humanscapes as its metaphor. Aside from paintings, Marcial makes sculptures, installation, prints, graphics and video art. His works reflect his sensitivity towards the urban life's seemingly suffocating existence. In the traffic congestion of human bodies and machines, the "Worst" of our species seems to manifest and fester. However, is this chaos a part of the cycles of transcendence, our search for "Worth".
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Nationality:
PHILIPPINES
- Date of birth : 1975
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary Filipino Artists
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