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History is written by the victors Painting
Australia
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 39.4 W x 47.2 H x 1.2 D in
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About The Artwork
She was just ten years old before being rendered irrelevant. At almost double the height of the Statue of Liberty, Mother of the Motherland was unveiled in Kiev by Leonid Brezhnev in 1981, only a decade before the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union voted itself into extinction. It could have been worse: originally twin statues of Lenin and Stalin, each nearly 200 metres tall, were planned for the site. With the Soviet economy already deeply stressed, the estimated 9 million rouble construction cost was controversial from the outset. And current financial shortages mean the “eternal” flame at its base - which consumes 400 cubic metres of gas per hour - is no longer eternal. Nowadays it is burned only on the biggest national holidays. Like the monuments of antiquity, it may only be a matter of time before the prevailing political creed decides she be “repurposed” for another use, or scrapped altogether.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:39.4 W x 47.2 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Australia.
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Matthew was featured in BRW as one of Australia's top 50 artists. In the past few years he's won, or been a finalist for, more than 70 major national art awards. He's had 14 solo and 80 group shows. He's painted all his life but allowed himself to be distracted by other careers, working variously as a lecturer, art-director, photographer & writer. His first novel was short-listed for the Vogel Literary Award. He's lived in Australia, the UK, Portugal & Malaysia, and once camped for several months beneath a grand piano. He spent nights under stars in India, under-ground in Bolivia, under surveillance in Burma and under-nourished in London. His scariest moment was having machine-gun shoved in his face during Nepalese anti-monarchy riots, although crashing a para-glider into a forest was also something of a highlight.
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