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Pharaohs Painting

David Arthur

United Kingdom

Painting, Pastel on Paper

Size: 16.5 W x 23.2 H x 1.6 D in

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About The Artwork

On location in Egypt.The diminutive director and his appropriately attired star entertain visiting bigwigs.All have pharaoh complexes except the star who is just dressed like one. This picture is about megalomania.It is fair to assume anyone building fifty foot statues of himself across the country,sometimes in a row during his own lifetime is a megalomaniac.We see other BIG EGOS here in the shape of the visiting bigwigs and the diminutive director who needs the cooperation of local bigwiggery to get his BIG EGO film made.The star in costume is only a tool in the hands of the director...as ever.

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Painting:Pastel on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.5 W x 23.2 H x 1.6 D in

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My earliest work in Indian ink and watercolour involved paintings of people's homes which I attempted to sell on the doorsteps of affluent Kensington West London.Happily they were all in easy walking distance of my own W8 hovel.In cold weather the owners sometimes brought me soup which I consumed while seated on the kerb,all very Dickensian. I performed a similar activity involving breweries.That is to say I was compelled to visit every hostelry between Edwardes Square in Kensington and Sloane Square in Chelsea,to this day it remains a blur in my memory.Yet not entirely so.I do remember encountering the author of Cider with Rosie when I was trying to sell a picture of The Roebuck pub in Chelsea to the landlord.Said author referred to the Roebuck as his 'office'. My chief desire was to illustrate books and my first three publishing commissions arrived on the same day,whacking out illustrations for three books at the same time was not without its problems. I mainly illustrated children's books for some of the big London publishers but after fifteen years of line and wash I decided to reacquaint myself with oil pastels. It took a further five years or more for me to become anywhere near proficient...this learning process continues. As to the present.I like bright colours and sunny days,I love the sun and heat of Egypt.Oil pastels (the best ones,there's only one brand)seem to get it done for me in terms of colour and application. My pictures may appear on the wild side,I can assure you are measured to the inch,hence my reluctance to chop bits off to accommodate the recent prints crisis. In terms of content,my contemporary female forms crazily intermingled with figures from the 1920s(the era of the great Tutankhamun discovery)contain the essential humorous element for what are meant to be fun pictures. Ancient Egypt providing the most spectacular imagery and the best hats.

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