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Second Coming Painting
United States
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 39.9 W x 55.9 H x 1.8 D in
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"Second Coming" 2009. Acrylic on canvas. 55.875" H x 39.875" W (141.92 x 101.28 cm) / Organic Realism "Second Coming" is a breakout piece in one of Jay Worth Allen's flower series that spans several years. "Second Coming" bears the marks of the artist's current style, with its broad bold brush strokes, and includes a fresco-esque technique applied to the flower, by which, combining gesso and paint, an extreme vibrant yellow has been created, emphasizing the ominous, yet beautiful sky behind the giant flower. A first look reveals the flower's intricate, plush seed-head bursting with life, projecting out of the canvas in warm oranges, yellows, and light greens. Intense yellow petals frame the fertile center in a perfect combination of delicate strength, radiating divine light. Behind, a blue sky mixed with blacks and grays swirl around bright blue orbs, implying movement, as if the heavens themselves are dancing. No contemporary artist can get away without at least one work created in homage (if only a nudge) to Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers. This piece's imagery has at least two similarities: the fact of the giant sunflower subject; and the "Starry Night" reminiscent background. An earlier version of Jay Worth Allen's "Second Coming" bore little resemblance to van Gogh's work at all, and, was a piece he says, "I never really liked." So, as is the case with artists ad infinitum, he painted over the inferior work and produced the spectacular, master work you see here. As with the other pieces in this collection, the significance of this piece is profound. An exquisite technical accomplishment, in particular, this work culminates the artist's move into a deeper plane of the fons et origo which the he paints -- refreshing, unabashed freedom, unencumbered by human conditioning -- where, if one listens, the very breath of God can be heard. Works from his flower series are in public and private collections throughout the U.S. and abroad, as well as in several gallery owner's private collections. Please visit Jay Worth Allen's profile for more information, and to view other works currently being offered through Saatchi Art. We appreciate and encourage any comments. Thank you. Regarding shipping: This work will be shipped in accordance to Saatchi Art's shipping guidelines (removed from its stretcher, rolled and shipped in a professional mailing tube). Otherwise, please contact the artist to discuss other shipping methods (which may possibly incur additional shipping costs).
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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:39.9 W x 55.9 H x 1.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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— Artist Statement — I was born. When I was about 6, I started drawing. Later, I started painting. That's still what I'm doing. What I know, I put into my work. I am interested in visible or tangible things that ARE, rather than Opinion. In my work, there are pre-formed, conventional, depersonalized, factual elements — impartial objects. I am concerned with the wholeness of a thing remaining within the boundaries of knowledge. It is within this boundary that I strive to conceal and reveal known objects at the same time. We have an existing language of words, signs, symbols, shapes, formulas, treatises, poems and the like — whole bodies of belief and knowledge that can, presumably, describe and penetrate anything and everything. Yet, I am forced to recognize that the system which enables me to form a piece of art and to think coherently cannot define how I uniquely think or feel, or even how I picture myself and everything outside myself. The plane of my work has always been real things — REAL MOMENTS RESTING IN TIME, where the ideational and perceptual worlds intersect to form image, idea, icon, and space, and — where I, and therefore the viewer, is projected through to another reality. Technique is inextricably tied to the content of my work. By working in all mediums, I work with numerous techniques. As a painter, acrylic is my medium of choice. My 3D & sculptural materials range from chicken wire to wood to concrete blocks to whatever material I find in my field of sight. The methods I use in printmaking (woodblock, silkscreen, blueprints, lithographs) all combine multiple processes. For me there is no hierarchy among these mediums and techniques; yet, drawing is the foundation for all my work. It’s is the way I speak the best, the clearest. — Brief Bio — On March 6 (the anniversary of Michelangelo’s birthday), J. Worth Allen (“Jay”) was born in Daylight, Tennessee. He grew up in Austin. Studied in Memphis, London, Oxford, New York, Los Angeles—. Has exhibited in New York, Texas, California, London, Edinburgh, France, and beyond. At 16, he was accepted into the top 3 art schools in the nation, each, with full scholarships: Pratt Institute/Fine Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and The Art Academy in Memphis, which won out (via a cartographical nudge from his dad).
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