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United States
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 50 W x 60 H x 1 D in
Spectacularly Dying is a painting depicting that first nostalgic moment innocence became aware of death. The spark which ignited the ideation of this work began on a camping trip with my nieces and nephew. The kids found a lizard, made it their pet, then accidentally killed it. Distraught, they organized an elaborate funeral ceremony. The sincerity at which they conducted this event was endearing and propelled me to document it with my camera. 4 months later I painted this work. The spectacle of death manifested as a snake eating a rodent becomes common ground for the childrens' source of empathy. Contrasting this mentality, mythological Chronus eating his child is a spectacle for the viewer exemplifying a denial and rebellion against imminent death as contrary to empathy and also as a futile struggle to control the inevitable. This juxtaposition alludes to the transformation of one mentality to another using empathy: ‘self-sustainment at all costs’ to ‘passing along the torch during a process of death’.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:50 W x 60 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United States
Isaac McCaslin was born in 1989 and raised in Madisonville, LA. In 2013 he received his B.F.A in Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. McCaslin is an award winning Artist currently based in Savannah receiving such honors as the 2014 Warden Family Foundations Best in Painting Award at the Boardwalk Art Show in Virginia Beach and the London International Creative Competition’s Talent of the year award for 2011. His work has been acquired into the permanent collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City. McCaslin currently works out of his studio in Savannah, GA.
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