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Perfect Angel 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
The notion of perfection is a messy business. If we are created in God’s image, then by definition - despite all our many variations - we must be perfect. But then, what of Original Sin? Sure, it was a brilliant piece of marketing. In terms of brand loyalty, what better way to engender allegiance than make your customers dependent upon birth? But it makes things complicated. If we are already the embodiment of godly perfection, then trying to improve upon this is not just impossible, but blasphemous. However if we are all by default flawed, then the pursuit of perfection is open slather. The repercussions can get weird. Which might explain why some people wake up one day, look to their elbows and say to themselves; you know what’s missing? Tattooed cobwebs. And what then of Angels? As His messengers in human form, they must surely be the personification of perfection. Or do they need improving too? No wonder when designed this statue Bernini gave the Angel whips. Talk about self-flagellation.
Original Created:2013
Subjects:Classical mythology
Materials:Canvas
Styles:ConceptualRealismSurrealism
Mediums:Oil
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:No
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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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