Off The Wall - Limited Edition of 1 Artwork

Off The Wall – from the Helden/Heroes series – nr.5 Limited (1/1) art print on canvas 120/80 cm Can a hero fall from his pedestal in hindsight? In case of this particular hero Michael Jackson, I was really a bit troubled by this question. To find an answer I travelled back to the eighties, 1982. I was12 years old, just grasping the phenomenon of pop music. (Fame, Grease and even Shakin' Stevens (really???!) had my interest in my previous years. In my defence for the Shakin' Stevens crush, you have to start somewhere.... right? But then, watching this weekly music show Count Down encountering a new phenomenon- the video clip. (Oh, how much has changed...) But imagine the excitement! Weeks before the release of Michael Jackson’s song Beat It, the word was out, something special was going down. Later, the same procedure repeated with the song and clip ‘Thriller’. The tension was stretched over weeks before the release and then.... Blast, bang, wow! It was unprecedented. And for me a star, an icon was born. I loved dancing already (*Fame) but I was so exited by his moves that I actually learned the moonwalk and the thriller clip dances by heart, even the zombie- moves. Later on in dance halls and discotheques I danced my brains out on his earlier hit song ‘Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough and many more, never out-dated and ultimate swinging music. The world loved and devoured him. This shy and vulnerable creature, gone mad? Tinkered at his appearance for ever, till there was nothing left to tinker with, leaving a pale-faced unhappy Pinocchio as remain. And to make it even worse, his alleged (or proved) paedophile actions, which culminated after his death. The soul question: Did Michael Jackson have more talent that he could bare? Or is the frantic father figure, the total lac of normal and privacy made him a freak? Well now my answer to the first question “Can a hero fall from his pedestal on hindsight?”, would be: musically, never, personally, I do pity him more that I judge him. I have a strong sense of him, being, besides a predator, a victim too. And still I feel grateful for what he gave to many others and me. So he belongs her in my hero series. Flanked by Peter Pan, his role model.

Mixed Media:Digital on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:47.2 W x 31.5 H x 0.8 D in

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