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United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 69.7 W x 65 H x 2 D in
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I find the legend of the Polish Cavalry charge against the actual documented evidence of the event interesting. I wished to portray the Polish Cavalry, not in their moment of defeat, but as a kind of ludicrous Romantic triumph. All the colors and the sky within the piece are taken from the videogame S.T.A.L.K.E.R. which is based on the 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker , as well as Stalker, the film's subsequent novelization. The sky taken from the game still when translated to paint takes on a Romantic appearance and yet the source of the Turner like evening glow in the painting is an exploding atom bomb, an unlikely scene alongside a cavalry change and yet both are sources from WW2. It shows the kind of false heroism found in Hollywood, subtly hinting at Poland’s emulation of American culture yet the atom bomb sent from America is about to wipe out everything.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:69.7 W x 65 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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United Kingdom
I think that painting is important. I see it as being intrinsically linked to cultural memory and an ideal medium to link the past to the present. The memorial presence of the past takes many forms and serves many purposes, ranging from nostalgic longing for what is lost to polemical use of the past to reshape the present. The paintings I make deal with both of these aspects, and serve as a longing and a warning as well as an active means or reshaping the past. Cultural recall and nostalgia is not merely something of which you happen to be a bearer but something that you actually perform, even if, in many instances, such acts are not conscious or wilful. I have a Masters in Fine from Glasgow School of Art which I graduated from in 2012. I currently live and work in Glasgow.
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