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'TODAY' Artwork

Gordon Coldwell

United Kingdom

Mixed Media, Digital on Canvas

Size: 30 W x 22.5 H x 0.1 D in

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'TODAY' Giclée Print on Canvas (+ 3 ins white border) The artwork is delivered with a signed and dated Certificate of Authenticity The work is filled with autobiographical references. The virtual interior is based on works by the British Pop Artist Richard Hamilton. TODAY might be seen as a Neo-Pop Art work. The image captures and references influences on my art practice. The passage of time, memory and aspects of art history combine in the making of a kind of self-portrait. The red curtain signals the unveiling of a stage set The shadow on the floor which features a young boy, with a bucket and spade, on his father’s shoulders, is, in fact, me and my eldest son pictured 30+ years ago – it references memory and the passage of time. The female ‘art-muse’ on the rhs of the scene is, in fact, my wife seen here – she represents Athena, the goddess of wisdom, art and war etc. The predominantly red artwork on the wall directly behind Athena is a work of mine called ‘The Primary Focal Point’. It references my love of Dutch 17th-century painting and how we look for meaning in a work of art. The image suspended across the corner of the room consists of virtual spaces in which objects and college students interact – the title of the work is ‘Vitruvian Kids’. I made the artwork as a cover image for an award winning college prospectus I designed. The image on the ceiling references space and time. The painting on the floor, propped up against the wall started life as a painting by the French artist David, called the ‘Death of Marat’. Here, the image has been adapted to contain a draped Greek Flag, the head of a sculpture of Alexander the Great replaces the head of Marat. Alexander holds a sheet of paper on which he has drawn a large X. The work is called ‘The Greek Vote’ and relates to the 2016 referendum to stay or leave the EU. The white dove references time, movement and sound in a scene in which everything else is frozen. On the wall in the space separating the two rooms is ‘Culture Show’. Based on Roxy Music’s ‘Country Life’ album cover, the two young women wear head covering garments representative of different religions. The scene in the other room is my own remaking of Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase - my version features Nudes Descending a Staircase. The spiral staircase is overlooked by my portrait of Richard Hamilton called RIP RH. Hamilton was a promoter of Duchamp’s importance in 20th-century art developments. To view more, visit: http://www.coldwellandcoldwell.co.uk/neo-pop-artworks

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Mixed Media:Digital on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:30 W x 22.5 H x 0.1 D in

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I was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK) in 1954. My mother was Dutch and could draw well. Both of these facts are significant in terms of influences and experiences. As a teenager, my summer holidays were spent in the Dutch seaside town of Scheveningen (my mother’s birthplace). We would stay with my grandmother and visit relatives... great uncles who collected stamps and painted everyday objects in the style of 17th-century artists... an uncle who was a graphic designer. They had prints of Dutch Golden Age landscape and still life paintings on their walls. Scheveningen is close to the Hague and Amsterdam an easy train journey away. Both places have world-famous art galleries that I visited with a Dutch cousin. To this day, my experience of seeing Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and standing in front of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch has stayed with me. My art teacher at secondary school was a graduate of Newcastle University. He had been taught by Richard Hamilton (Pop Artist) and Victor Pasmore (Formal Abstraction). We went to exhibitions at the University’s Hatton Gallery to see exhibitions of work by Kurt Schwitters (Merz/Dada Art) and John Heartfield (Anti Nazi Montage/Collage Art). All of these early experiences had a major impact on my career choice and still inform the artworks I make. My work might broadly be described as ‘Art About Art’ - it is multi-layered in construction and in potential meaning. I make my artworks by importing pictorial content into image manipulating software, the composition is then constructed, developed and finessed digitally. I often utilise elements sourced from classic 'Old Master' paintings. By fusing history with contemporary additions, I work with the iconic and the cultural, merging them to create new narratives. I quote from the art of the past so as to reinterpret a way of seeing and thinking that I associate with artists as disparate as Vermeer, Velasquez, Ingres, Manet, Duchamp and Richard Hamilton etc. My artworks are, in part, referential in their intent rather than simply appropriated or copied from masterworks. My imitation is a sincere form of flattery. In addition to explicit references, some may find humour in my alterations. By leaving out familiar elements or by adding new elements to known works, or reconfiguring components within them, much of my work is a visual commentary. Viewers often recognise 'familiar' elements in my re-imagined compositions.

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