Painting titled "Storyboards: Safe &…" by Gideon Nel, Original Artwork, Acrylic

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Storyboards: Safe & Satisfied (2000) Painting by Gideon Nel

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Original Artwork Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

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Original Artwork

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Dimensions Height 59.1in, Width 86.5in
Categories Paintings under $5,000 Conceptual Art

Advertising forms so much part of our daily lives, infringes on it, in a good or bad way, but a reality we have to accept.
One of 10 in the series Storyboards this painting highlights the problem of your partner leaving you and you need to have sex. Phone sex is an option, call the safe and satisfied line, choose a girl or boy from the selection on offer, and pay with visa or American express. Problem solved, no contact, no possibility of contracting anything that could harm your health feel safe and Satisfied. This painting is one of those fantasy adverts that explore the problem solving aspect of advertising.Like all the storyboards this one repeats the story. There is a problem, a product is presented and problem solved.

Presented in storyboard form as I spent most of my life directing TV commercials so it is a natural crossover for myself to the canvas.

Story Board Series was painted in 2000 and the series consisted of 10 works.

Storyboard: ~(Verb) a series of events drawn / painted / designed within a sequence of frames in varying styles depicting the plot / story of a film / commercial / Television series / work of art (pl.) –s

Frames outline surrounding drawing / painting / design usually black, used to depict the frame of a TV screen or cinema screen. The formats usually encountered for the screens were 3:4 for TV ( now 16:9) and 1:1.85 for cinema. The number of screens or frames per storyboard is left entirely to the discretion of the storyboard artist.

The drawing / painting / designs inside the frame can be done in either black & white or in color, differing in style as long as the concept of the story is clearly depicted.

The style should enhance the actual story told, giving it character and taking it to another dimension for the viewer of the drawing / painting / design.

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Gideon Nel

Portugal

Born in South Africa 1951. Studied Fine Arts Painting at the Pretoria Art School. Graduated and started his career working for his mentor, Hans Potgieter, South African Kinetic Artist for nearly a year, until a job as Art Director in a local feature film became available. Three months later joined the SABC TV and did a BBC TV training course for 9 months, learning all aspects of television, cameras, sound, editing. Seven years of editing and started directing documentaries and TV commercials. Always painting when possible as the hours in TV were long and hard.
In 1990 came to Portugal to do a film and was invited to stay and work.
In 2000 had my first one-man exhibition in Portugal a series Story Boards consisted of 10 paintings acrylic on canvas (150 x 219 cm)

Followed by my product launch of ZEN, peace in a can. 1,000 (limited edition) cans of ZEN with large canvas of Buddha (70.9 H x 82.7 W IN) featuring a levitating can of ZEN.as well as 6 individual paintings of ZEN cans in different colors and languages (39H x 39W IN).

The next series was products and public service announcements. Durex Pleasuremax 20 (70.9 H x 82.7 W IN) a large Raphael inspired group of nudes in a tropical setting followed by Vespa Scooters and Red Star Coffee both (59H x 86,5W IN) Followed by Kill every motherfuckingbugandcreature in your garden, a fictitious product against pesticides in general a PSA for Save the Rhino’s and one for Conservation.

The latest series on Government Warnings consists of four canvas’s currently and a 5th is being painted. The first was Watch 19.7 H x 15.7 W, followed Red Star Beer 65 H x 25.6 W, Lipstick 49.2 H x 25.6 W and Relationships 39.4 H x 47.2 W. all acrylic and vinyl on canvas.