Painting titled "Relationships, Gove…" by Gideon Nel, Original Artwork, Acrylic

Relationships, Government Warning 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 39.4in, Width 47.2in
Categories Paintings under $5,000 Conceptual Art

Set in a club or a hotel, art deco styling, the lighting is low and the couple shares a tender moment as the man lights the cigarette for a beautiful woman. She is dressed in a flaming red dress, matching her hair, nail varnish, and lipstick and is wearing emerald earrings. The man dressed in black suit and tie with stripes in blue and red, with a crisp white shirt. They a seated close together on a brown leather sofa bench. On the wall behind them is a wall covered in wallpaper with an art deco design matching the art deco lamps fixed to the wall emitting a warm yellow glow.
The man is gentle and concentrated on the task of offering the light. The woman moved closer to him to receive the light as her shoulder presses into him This moment is close and intimate showing the development of a lasting relationship.
Above to their right is a government warning sign. Relationships could cause cancer.
The appearance of government warning signs on more and more consumer goods we could in the future expect them to infringe even further on our lives.
Painted in acrylic on canvas with the wallpaper hand printed lino cut light mauve on a darker deep mauve background. The type is vinyl and the entire painting is sealed with an acrylic varnish. This painting is not framed.

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.