Laocoon (2008) Painting by Gilles Chambon

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Original Artwork Painting, Oil

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 25.6in, Width 31.9in
Categories Surrealism

Apollo sent two enormous snakes against Laocoon (to punish him, it is said, for not having respected his vow of celibacy). They devoured his sons first, then Laocoon himself. No wonder that in my painting, the two snakes advance masked, with ridiculous or terrifying masks, like those of criminals, but also like those of African sacred dances. The myth is always a mask which covers a large number of stories and represents them in a sacred or poetic fable. Here, the Trojan horse, borrowed from the "Divine Achilles' horses" by Chirico), is the last metaphysical seduction, the last trap which hides the imminent collapse of traditional art under the assaults of contemporary art. And to silence poor Laocoon, a shameless and somewhat kitsch priest-warrior, who denounces deception, the god of modern art sends the terrible, hilarious, and humorous machines of Tinguely, against the subversive power of which the defender of the old man stronghold of painting is no match for it. Like Troy, traditional art has today been destroyed.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Oil

Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger.

Surrealism

Founded in 1923 by the writer André Breton, it will unite many artists like Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Max Ernst, René Magritte (1898-1967), Victor Brauner (1903-1966). Influenced by psychoanalysis, they see psychic life as a new field for renewing the arts. They will develop new ways to create and use new materials.

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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