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Art Print "Fine Art" - Glossy finish on a fiber base paper 325 g.
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This work is an "Open Edition"
Digital Arts,
Giclée Print / Digital Print
- Dimensions Several sizes available
- Several supports available (Fine art paper, Metal Print, Canvas Print)
- Framing Framing available (Floating Frame + Under Glass, Frame + Under Acrylic Glass)
- Categories Pop Art
The work presents all manner of signs, symbols, religious taboos and identity issues simultaneously.
The red curtains are drawn and provide a 'reveal'.
• Why the nipple pinching? The hand-shape of the 'pincher' is very close to that repeatedly made by Donald Trump when making speeches - what does it mean?
• Why the shaven half-heads of women of colour at the bottom of the composition?
• Why are the scarf headed figures naked?
• The figure wearing a Union Jack scarf holds a ring by her fingertips?
• What do the national flags of the US and UK mean when they are warn as scarves?
• The figure wearing a burka/chadaree, her partner wears a nun's habit - what are the differences?
The 'burka/chadaree and nun's habit' motif appears again in the unfinished 'Culture Show' painting positioned in front of the couple (Jan van Eyck's - Arnolfini Marriage).
The Culture Show composition itself is based on the LP sleeve cover of Roxy Music's early '70s album, Country Life. This Arnolfini scene appears in a related by the UK Pop Artist, Richard Hamilton.
Related themes
Background
I was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK) in 1954. My mother was Dutch and could draw well. Both of these facts are significant in terms of influences and experiences.
As a teenager, my summer holidays were spent in the Dutch seaside town of Scheveningen (my mother’s birthplace). We would stay with my grandmother and visit relatives... great uncles who collected stamps and painted everyday objects in the style of 17th-century artists... an uncle who was a graphic designer. They had landscape and still life paintings on their walls.
Scheveningen is close to the Hague and Amsterdam an easy train journey away. Both places have world-famous art galleries that I visited with a Dutch cousin. To this day, my experience of seeing Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and standing in front of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch has stayed with me.
My art teacher at secondary school was a graduate of Newcastle University. He had been taught by Richard Hamilton (Pop Artist) and Victor Pasmore (Formal Abstraction). We went to exhibitions at the University’s Hatton Gallery to see exhibitions of work by Kurt Schwitters (Merz/Dada Art) and John Heartfield (Anti Nazi Montage/Collage Art).
My work might broadly be described as ‘Art About Art’ - it is multi-layered in construction and in potential meaning.
Practice
I make my artworks by importing pictorial content into two kinds of image manipulating software, the composition is then constructed, developed and finessed digitally.
By fusing history with contemporary additions, I work with the iconic and the cultural, merging them to create new narratives. I quote from the art of the past so as to reinterpret a way of seeing and thinking that I associate with artists as disparate as Vermeer, Velasquez, Ingres, Manet, Duchamp and Richard Hamilton etc. My artworks are, in part, referential in their intent rather than simply appropriated or copied from masterworks. My imitation is a sincere form of flattery. In addition to explicit references, some may find humour in my alterations.
All of my artworks have the potential to be produced on a very large scale.
Abbreviated CV - Education and Career
Born Newcastle upon Tyne 1954
Bachelor of Education Hons Degree - Warwick University 1976
Art Teacher - Saintbridge School, Gloucester 1976-78
Art & Design Lecturer - West Sussex College of Design 1979-86
Head of Art, Design & Media - Bridgwater College 1987-1996
Marketing Manager - Bridgwater College 1996 - 2007
Owner of I More Than Brand - Marketing Business 2007-2014
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Nationality:
UNITED KINGDOM
- Date of birth : unknown date
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary British Artists
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