![The Last Two years is a series of portrait paintings begun in 2012; the year my mother passed away. An asssignment I gave myself to work through the grieving process and express the evolving mental, emotional and psychological states. Originally planned to do 100 at present there are roughly 245 paintings.
As a kid I remember watching the film Barabbas with my mother. Anthony Quinn plays the character who suffers the perils of survivors guilt after he is chosen to be freed rather Christ.
from Wikipedia
According to all four canonical gospels there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem that allowed or required Pilate, the praefectus or governor of Judea, to commute one prisoner's death sentence by popular acclaim, and "the multitude" in some sources, were offered a choice of whether to have either Barabbas or Jesus released from Roman custody. According to the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke,and the account in John,the crowd chose Barabbas to be released and Jesus of Nazareth to be crucified. Pilate is portrayed as reluctantly yielding to the insistence of the crowd. A passage found only in the Gospel of Matthew has the crowd saying (of Jesus), "Let his blood be upon us and upon our children."
Matthew refers to Barabbas only as a "notorious prisoner".Mark and Luke further refer to Barabbas as one involved in a στάσις (stasis, a riot), probably "one of the numerous insurrections against the Roman power" who had committed murder.[8] Robert Eisenman states that John 18:40 refers to Barabbas as a λῃστής (lēstēs, "bandit"), "the word Josephus always employs when talking about Revolutionaries".](https://images.saatchiart.com/saatchi/734213/art/5943609/additional_5c6e86879d4a71588ded5d9bd290b3a059f0ec81-AICC2-22.jpg)
![The Last Two years is a series of portrait paintings begun in 2012; the year my mother passed away. An asssignment I gave myself to work through the grieving process and express the evolving mental, emotional and psychological states. Originally planned to do 100 at present there are roughly 245 paintings.
As a kid I remember watching the film Barabbas with my mother. Anthony Quinn plays the character who suffers the perils of survivors guilt after he is chosen to be freed rather Christ.
from Wikipedia
According to all four canonical gospels there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem that allowed or required Pilate, the praefectus or governor of Judea, to commute one prisoner's death sentence by popular acclaim, and "the multitude" in some sources, were offered a choice of whether to have either Barabbas or Jesus released from Roman custody. According to the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke,and the account in John,the crowd chose Barabbas to be released and Jesus of Nazareth to be crucified. Pilate is portrayed as reluctantly yielding to the insistence of the crowd. A passage found only in the Gospel of Matthew has the crowd saying (of Jesus), "Let his blood be upon us and upon our children."
Matthew refers to Barabbas only as a "notorious prisoner".Mark and Luke further refer to Barabbas as one involved in a στάσις (stasis, a riot), probably "one of the numerous insurrections against the Roman power" who had committed murder.[8] Robert Eisenman states that John 18:40 refers to Barabbas as a λῃστής (lēstēs, "bandit"), "the word Josephus always employs when talking about Revolutionaries".](https://images.saatchiart.com/saatchi/734213/art/5943609/additional_e246ac6a78ed067c4b956e7ceec83ec363fbff4f-AICC2-22.jpg)
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The Last Two Years; Barabbas Bent Painting
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The Last Two years is a series of portrait paintings begun in 2012; the year my mother passed away. An asssignment I gave myself to work through the grieving process and express the evolving mental, emotional and psychological states. Originally planned to do 100 at present there are roughly 245 paintings. As a kid I remember watching the film Barabbas with my mother. Anthony Quinn plays the character who suffers the perils of survivors guilt after he is chosen to be freed rather Christ. from Wikipedia According to all four canonical gospels there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem that allowed or required Pilate, the praefectus or governor of Judea, to commute one prisoner's death sentence by popular acclaim, and "the multitude" in some sources, were offered a choice of whether to have either Barabbas or Jesus released from Roman custody. According to the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke,and the account in John,the crowd chose Barabbas to be released and Jesus of Nazareth to be crucified. Pilate is portrayed as reluctantly yielding to the insistence of the crowd. A passage found only in the Gospel of Matthew has the crowd saying (of Jesus), "Let his blood be upon us and upon our children." Matthew refers to Barabbas only as a "notorious prisoner".Mark and Luke further refer to Barabbas as one involved in a στάσις (stasis, a riot), probably "one of the numerous insurrections against the Roman power" who had committed murder.[8] Robert Eisenman states that John 18:40 refers to Barabbas as a λῃστής (lēstēs, "bandit"), "the word Josephus always employs when talking about Revolutionaries".
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"Despite strident efforts to paint the smallness of birds monuments persist. " website: www.sheltonwalsmith.com Published by The Paris Review, Knopf, Vintage, Rizzoli Books, Paris Vogue, Denver Quarterly, Shots Magazine, Harper Collins, The New York Times and others. Exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Prague, St.Thomas and Austin. His most recent one man shows was at Seven Minus Seven Gallery In the US Virgin Islands. Personal interests; weather patterns, the inner life of trees, limes, irrationality, filigreed space, tequila, the middle ages, muay thai boxing, kittens, puppies, red wine, French New Wave cinema, sharp knives, lengths of twine rolled into balls for kittens to rut and nuzzle, cowboy britches, comedy jokes, rosemary short bread, blue moons, red squares, purple rain, carrot juice, my bidet, interiors, monumentality, audit remediation, the direction up. profile pic: Self portrait holding Autumnal Brutalist collage January 26, 2022
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