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United Kingdom
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 61.6 W x 42 H x 2 D in
Ships in a Crate
'Dare You' is the third in a series of thirteen portraits of a well known Mexican artist, by Derbyshire based Scottish Artist John McDonald. Dare You is a large-scale statement piece approx 100 x 150 cm showing a close-up of the face of his Mexican Heroine. With striking and unusual colouring, the Mexican Heroine is depicted wearing scarlet head band and elaborate earrings set with pearls/coloured stones. The face is painted in yellows and and fiery orange against a beautiful deep red background. Dare You is painted on high quality cotton canvas in artist's quality acrylic paints and metallic acrylics. Dare You is shipped in a crate and comes ready to hang, twice varnished, and professionally framed in a textured light coloured wood frame approx 4 cm wide. Continuing to explore the theme of indomitable spirit in the face of disability, suffering, and all life brings, the artist here presents the Mexican Heroine's's beauty in a totally uncompromising and almost fierce way.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:61.6 W x 42 H x 2 D in
Frame:Other
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:United Kingdom.
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Born in a Glasgow tenement in a sectarian district, I left school with a piece of paper (no certificates) saying that I was deaf and would be best employed in a noisy environment as everyone would be similarly disadvantaged. Born under the image of Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dali. This huge painting in Kelvingrove art gallery seems to have an impact on me becoming an Artist in my 50s. Can I say that I spent years of my childhood evading gallery custodians and sliding along the polished floor under this painting? Unknown to me at the time, this painting by Dali, with its dynamic perspective and monumental scale, planted the seed for a love of art, and awakened the soul of this deaf kid from Drumchapel. When I first picked up a piece of charcoal as an adult and started to draw, it was a version of Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross which I created. Following a decade working in noisy environments, my real education began: in a Merseyside Unemployed Resource Centre. Training to become a Welfare Rights Officer I became hungry for education. In becoming mentally astute in the law, politics, and history that inform welfare and union work, I found, with naivety, myself. My fine art practice is informed by the dual and equal passions of my life: a passion for creative arts, and passionate campaigning for social justice. I have always been involved in the arts, through theatre, film, directing, and spoken word performance. For a long time I needed to shout, and I used performance to shout publically, about abuses and inequality I witnessed in mainstream services, to shout out for social justice, and educate on behalf of silent minorities. I am profoundly deaf and found that being involved in the arts was a way of being included. I started painting about 6 years ago on an old van that had been converted as a camper, just a plain white van that became a giant 3D canvas. I was conscious of passers by either watching or commenting, both were a challenge because of deafness but it was this situation that allowed me to be more included in my community and society in general. People liked my work and over a period of years as the van canvas was filled so was I, with confidence and more involvement with passers by, some who became friends. My painting is both the catalyst and the fruition of a personal journey towards peace.
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