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Shark Island Painting
United States
Painting, Digital on Canvas
Size: 60 W x 40 H x 2 D in
Ships in a Tube
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"Shark Island" - digital giclée canvas, 60"w x 40"h (152.4 x 101.6 cm), 2017. Part of the "Afrika" series. One original edition available for public sale; and one available for gallery/museum request. In the late 19th Century, there was a land grab competition in the African continent, and Germany sought to make their colonial imprint in the Namibia region in Southwest Africa. The Herero people revolted against German rule, at one point killing over 100 German settlers. Reinforcements went sent and the Herero were vanquished. Guerrilla warfare ensued, and the German response was to ship the Herero, and the Nama people who also rebelled, to concentration camps. One of the worst was located on Shark Island, off the southern coast. This coincided with the Eugenics movement in science, and German doctors committed atrocities on the island in their attempts to prove Aryan superiority. The irony of using barbarity to support a disfavored science is what brought forth this painting. Archival quality 10-ink printer, Breathing Color® Aqueous canvas. Full sized art is unstretched and rolled in a tube for shipping.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Digital on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:60 W x 40 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Ships From:United States.
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Will Felix seeks a way of participating visually in a conversation about the world we live in, while circumventing the impasse of communicating in the modern town hall. The current works are created in the digital realm, allowing for a contemporary challenge of expressing painterly abstraction influenced by the 20th century masters such as the Fauves and the Orphists. Will chooses to return to the symbolic explorations that were taking place before commercialism and hyperconceptualism took hold, in the hopes of encouraging greater reflection upon our realities.
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