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Indonesia
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 39.4 W x 39.4 H x 4 D in
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‘Red Stagnation’ is profoundly Balinese in every way, especially with the mythical Barong taking the dominant central position. The elaboration of content and detail is a conspicuous feature of the traditional Balinese aesthetic. I have submerged myself mentally and physically in a good many exotic countries and cultures these past 55 years. Each had a profound influence, and yet it always astonishes me how these powerful and pervasive influences are thoroughly digested, integrated and effortlessly absorbed into my creative expressive vernacular and style. Around four years ago I experienced a brief but troublesome feeling of artistic stagnation. I decided I might break through this by returning to pure drawing in lines. This represented a deliberate revival or reclamation/renaissance. My gift for drawing was all that set me apart as a working class boy growing up in the industrial midlands of England. In this painting, after drawing all the figures and other details in black pigment with fine brushes, several layers of transparent red pigment where spread over the lines, which remained clearly visible, creating a hot, stifling atmosphere that communicated and resonated with how I felt. At the same time the red seemed to simmer with inner life. Rudolf Steiner calls this the color of nobility, power, life in the animal and human sense, blood, energy. Sullied red is associated with base passions, greed, extreme apathy.
Original Created:2016
Subjects:Classical mythology
Materials:Canvas
Styles:Fine ArtSurrealism
Mediums:Oil
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 4 D in
Frame:Brown
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Ships From:Indonesia.
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Bruce Sherratt was born in England in 1944, the son of a coal miner. His gift for drawing and painting was recognized early and he began studying art full-time at age fifteen. As a young art student he was inspired by the early surrealist masters. Shortly after obtaining a degree in painting Bruce fulfilled a youthful ambition by travelling to Mexico where he settled, quickly establishing his own identity as a surrealist painter and exhibiting in Guadalajara, San Francisco and Mexico City. In the early 1970s he became interested in theories and the psychology of artistic creativity. Focusing primarily on fantasy as a stimulus for developing creative/imaginative skills he was awarded an advanced degree in art education at the University of Wales. Bruce then embarked on a rich and varied two-fold career as a practicing-exhibiting artist and teacher whose fundamental raison d'etre remains his own painting. Sherratt became interested in comparative religions and philosophies and in particular the work of Rudolf Steiner, especially the latter's work on colour theory; all of which had a profound effect on his work both as an artist and art educator. Bruce Sherratt has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, Germany, Africa, South America, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and currently in Ubud,Bali where he founded and runs his own art center and gallery - Bali Center For Artistic Creativity (BCAC) and Bruce Sherratt Gallery Of Tropical Surrealism. His travels have deeply influenced his work and its development. Nowadays Bruce's time and energies are focused at his home, studio and Art Center in Bali where paints, teaches and lives with his wife and teenage son.
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