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Utmost Respect Painting
Australia
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 39.4 W x 47.2 H x 1.2 D in
Ships in a Crate
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About The Artwork
When Napoleon’s army used the Sphinx’s nose for cannon practice, was it because there were no other convenient targets handy? Or were there greater motives at play? Destruction of art for political purposes is not a new thing. But now, surely, as civilised and enlightened citizens of the world, we are beyond all that. And yet, and yet... ISIS destroyed Roman artefacts in Syria, the Taliban blew up the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan and the Americans toppled the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad. Not the same? Because they are the bad guys? When you step back and ignore the politics, all are still works of art, symbolic of their environment, destroyed for a temporal ideological agenda. And yet here’s the curious thing. Psychologically the sentiment between the people who build monuments and those who destroy them, is the same. It’s about validation and leaving a mark. Some say it with beauty, others with destroying beauty. All trying to say: Here I am. I have existed.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:39.4 W x 47.2 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Australia.
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Matthew was featured in BRW as one of Australia's top 50 artists. In the past few years he's won, or been a finalist for, more than 70 major national art awards. He's had 14 solo and 80 group shows. He's painted all his life but allowed himself to be distracted by other careers, working variously as a lecturer, art-director, photographer & writer. His first novel was short-listed for the Vogel Literary Award. He's lived in Australia, the UK, Portugal & Malaysia, and once camped for several months beneath a grand piano. He spent nights under stars in India, under-ground in Bolivia, under surveillance in Burma and under-nourished in London. His scariest moment was having machine-gun shoved in his face during Nepalese anti-monarchy riots, although crashing a para-glider into a forest was also something of a highlight.
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