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Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 24 W x 48 H x 2 D in
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‘The feeling of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility’. Francis Bacon. This is my Study for a Portrait, after Bacon’s Study for a Portrait, after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X. In the creation of this piece I hoped to pay hommage to both Bacon and Velázquez while creating a work that is personal to me and very much representative of my story. So I took a bunch of my drawings and collaged them to a wood panel. I then painted my version of a screaming Pope with an orange sash around his neck - this was inspired by Rev. Ian Paisley’s interruption of Pope John Paul’s speech at the European Parliament in 1988 wherein Paisley called the Pope the antichrist.
Original Created:2016
Subjects:Religion
Painting:Acrylic on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 48 H x 2 D in
Frame:Brown
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:United States.
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Gareth is an Irish artist living and working in Austin, Texas. He is primarily known for his unique, figurative paintings and prints featuring fragmented portraits and insurgent imagery from his life (past and present.) he recontextualizes works of old masters such as Da Vinci, employing esthetics that echo Jean michel Basquiat, Jean Dubuffet and Picasso. Gareth's art focuses on suggestive dichotomies such as freedom versus occupation, sovereignty versus subservience, war versus peace, love versus hate, Catholicism versus protestantism and religion versus irreligion. Balancing abstraction with figuration, his social commentary is at time simple and humorous and other times insightful and provocative. He mixes stainless steel with canvas, steel bars with wood and applies oil bar, acrylic and spray paint to just about any useable surface. His paintings are punctuated by doodles and phrases from his daughters, along with images and poetry from many of his favorite painters and writers. His life in Northern Ireland, England, France, New York, Los Angeles and Texas has given him a perspective rendered in contradictions - colorful yet blacker than black, unique yet familiar, a unification of the obscure and the obvious.
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