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Road Side Painting

Paul Cummings

United Kingdom

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 94.5 W x 94.5 H x 3.9 D in

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Description: A get away journey by car offers a fleeting moment of another failed utopia. A cottage conjures its self up as a romantic symbol of a bygone age only to relapse into a modular new build with a faux Tudor faade built to a Bankers specification. Possibly a second home that's certainly fallen short of the ideal. Merely it is perhaps a practical decision of commutability and affordability? The topology here is intended to represent a low lying agricultural area possibly an estuary on the fringes of heavy industry offers a fallacious rest bite. The water works suggests a release of invasive odours into the air which already seems contaminated by languid atmospheric dust. This idealised landscape is dissected by the thoroughfare of r

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Painting:

Acrylic on Canvas

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

94.5 W x 94.5 H x 3.9 D in

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1972 Born Bournemouth Dorset1995 Shelley Park College of Art1999 Cheltenham University2009 Studio LeytonstoneCurrently live and work in London with painting studio in Leytonstone.Using particular sources such as photography and images scoured from the internet including 3d objects has allowed Paul Cummings to construct a fallacious realism by using advanced digital processes. The final images are then translated as a perfect facsimile into paintings. His work vacillates between reality and its virtual origins undecidedly never settling for one or the other. This fetishistic flattening of surface suppresses a neurotic anthropological undercurrent that is present within his works. His observations make a subtle pun on societal values but he also sublimates the banal in a precise rarified manner. His work and influences are a derivative of photo-realism and its concurrent movement hyper-realism.

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