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Rachel Weisz and Mississippi John Hurt (2021) Painting by Tom Aberneithie
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Painting,
Oil
on Linen Canvas
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Dimensions
24x18.1 in
Dimensions of the work alone, without framing: Height 23.6in, Width 17.7in - Framing This artwork is framed
- Categories Paintings under $1,000 Conceptual Art Portrait
meaninglessness/meaning; visual beauty/sonic beauty; youth/age; new/old; woman/man; white/black; UK/USA; early capitalist age/late capitalist age; financially secure/impoverished; happy/sad; static/moving, privilege/oppression; lust/love; superficiality of image/human condition; detached spectatorship/engagement and involvement.
Of course both characters share the theme of entertainment. In this time of late capitalism when we are exhausted by an omnipresent cultural sterility, maintaining ourselves as entertained slaves seems to be all there is left. I therefore think this juxtaposition is rather apt. Both characters in this painting, though polarised in nearly every way (as described), today, are both merely exploited caricatures of equal significance/insignificance.
Once we had beliefs, now we only have aesthetics. Beliefs have become an aesthetic. What was once sublime is now a stereotype. And the whole vacuous package is drip fed to us via screens which we are desperate to consume and then waste because our definition of ‘value’ has now changed to a mere price tag- a tag we scrutinize in order to determine our worth as people. But we know all this already. That’s the problem- we know it but accept it. I know that this painting, my Instagram page, the promotion of my art and of myself will only ever be (at best) a cartoon of anti-capitalist rhetoric. And that at its most effective, it will strengthen the system it is so critical of. But what succeeds post irony? History as we knew it might be over but we think and we feel and we paint nonetheless. It needs to be done.
Tom Aberneithie is a contemporary Australian artist. Aberneithie is currently engaged in traditional figurative painting. His work draws comparisons between contemporary multi-national monopolies and aspects of British colonialism.
- Nationality: AUSTRALIA
- Date of birth : 1972
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- Groups: Contemporary Australian Artists