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Obituary: Wayne Thiebaud Painting

Hugh Mendes

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 9.8 W x 13.8 H x 0.8 D in

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Memorial... part of my obituary series of artists who have been ann inspiration to me. I use their self portrait or other painting as image. Remade in my own format: that of a newspaper obituary.

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Oil on Canvas

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9.8 W x 13.8 H x 0.8 D in

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I have been painting images of newspaper clippings for about twenty years now. They came to prominence in my work following 9/11, the day of my MA graduation, when I showed a painting of Bin Laden pointing a gun at a triumphant George Bush. It had been painted about a month previously. The use of newspaper clippings provides a very flat spatial field, recalls certain trompe loile 17th century still life and can deal directly with contemporary issues such as cloning and terrorism. These are contemporary manifestations of the timeless themes of birth and death. Recently I have been working on an ongoing, and never ending, series of obituaries. Obituaries condense a life into a few column inches and a single image a scrap of newsprint that becomes a heavy token, a memento, even an icon, when rendered in paint.
The act of painting and therefore sustained concentration brings a degree of focus and depth to what otherwise would be fleeting moments in the press. Recently I have been focussing on obituary paintings of other artists, especially remaking their self portraits for the image.

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