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Nostradamus II XCV Painting
United States Minor Outlying Islands
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 39.1 W x 31.5 H x 0 D in
About The Artwork
Although current time of pandemic and social turbulence was a major motivation to paint “Nostradamus II, XCV”, this oil on canvas could be understood at several parallel levels. First, I felt that there was a hope when I saw solutions created where I work. Later, I saw many lives being saved by these solutions. Then, I felt that I was in the right place to do more, and I started to paint. During planning of this painting, I understood that there was to much more to represent, because current global problems are larger than I had imagined. Then, I decided using a few elements in a simple composition to highlight urgency for a radical change of the human behavior at global scale. Homo sapiens is a weak specie, traveling in a wet stone at a prohibitive speed around a huge fire. Therefore, we are irrelevant for nature, and we could be replaced by any other specie using a stone, a virus, water, fire or any creative correction device. This time, we have received a kind warning from nature, but the next could not be so gentle. What are we doing about it? Logics suggest that weak species should taking care one each other, to improve survival probability looking for happiness, progress, knowledge, and spirituality for all. Instead of that, you know what we are really doing. On arrival to Cuba, several centuries ago, the Yoruba people said: “Once upon a time, the truth and the fib, met alone in the wood. The fib got a cane-knife, and the truth did the same. The truth and the fib, fought for a long time. From that time forward, the fib lives with the head of the truth, and the truth with that of the fib.” The present seems to point to the truth as the first victim. Therefore, saving it could a hopeful stage to be strong specie. The white pigeon in the painting could represent truth, tolerance, love, brotherhood, spirituality, and all talents that we should cultivate to harvest happiness. The remaining elements of the composition are obvious suggestions of the current times as invitation to read “Nostradamus”, century II, versicle XCV.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:39.1 W x 31.5 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United States Minor Outlying Islands
I was born on June 29, 1965, in Havana, Cuba. I have been collecting and analyzing information to complete “The Fidel Micó Catalogue Raisonnée” (Art Documentation 2015, 34 (2): 349-353), and writing on relevant events (Mass Communication and Journalism 2015, 5:3). This non-profit research project, submitted to the Catalogue Raisonnée Scholars Association (CRSA) and the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), is available for free download. My research interests have included ambidextrous painters, blind painters, landscape painting, appraisal and valuation of artworks, art market interactions, and the matrix of the art world. I started independent research on painting after a visit to the studio of the ambidextrous painter Fidel Micó, and informal meetings with artists of the Cuban artistic movement known as “Horizontes”. I am working on detailed examination of paintings at the Mico’s studio, and learning oil painting on canvas from this Cuban contemporary artist. I decided to paint oil on canvas because I found in the work of Wifredo Lam that most human perceptions cannot be represented and transferred to other persons by writing and speaking. Undoubtedly, visual arts and music hold critical roles to improve human condition and transcendence at global scale. I am one of those persons who paid attention to the fourth word of the statement “Science is the art of doubt.” I also agree with Prof. Julian Stallabrass on the idea that art should be made for everyone (Art History 2014, 37 (1): 148-165), and, turning back to Lam’s work, I can feel energy coming far beyond we can see, smell, taste, hear, and touch. Something between “rigorous explanations of reality” and “blind faith” remains to be incorporated into human live and evolution.
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