VIEW IN MY ROOM
New Zealand
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 70.9 W x 55.1 H x 1.4 D in
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In 1997 a film crew converged on our small village to film a wedding as part of a feature film entitled “Topless Women Talk About Their Lives”. Life in the village stopped and everyone pulled together to make “our” input into the film a success and even some, such as my wife, had speaking parts. As an artist and a member of the village for nearly twenty years I was acutely aware of the potential for exploitation that such an intrusion could effect, but as a great time was had by all, I believed that any fallout from their presence would be negated and indeed that is what happened. It did not however stop me from embarking on a conscious act of counter-exploitation whereby I coerced two of the actors into modeling for me and I eventually painted this image that compared the psychology of sensual seduction with how the crystal clarity and coolness of the water summons one on a hot tropical day.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:70.9 W x 55.1 H x 1.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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New Zealand
New Zealand born Mark Cross moved at the age of 23 to his wife’s home on the Polynesian island of Niue and it was during these early years that a strong philosophic and stylistic foundation was established for his career as an artist. Due to this continued isolation, Cross has worked on the 'periphery', of the traditional art industry. Cross has developed a reputation as one of the South Pacific’s leading contemporary realist painters and now divides his time between studios in Niue and New Zealand while travelling and exhibiting elsewhere. His paintings over time have emerged from being informed by the extended immersion in an isolated, water-bound, natural environment into a universal vision that questions the foibles of Mankind. Elements of the New Zealand and Niue environment became the atmospheric stages for these allegorical communications although more recently he has employed similarly unique landscapes from around the world. In their ethereal, visionary way, the works warn of the dire ecological imperatives that face both a small island and a planet. Mark Cross has achieved through his work a uniqueness that avoids the trappings of provincialism, so often associated with realism, and replaces it with an acutely perceptive worldview. Rarely exhibiting in dealer galleries, the artist's work often sell straight from the easel. Artist Statement: Although all my paintings are obviously based on specific places, those places are secondary to the motivations to depict them. I use landscape elements in all my paintings not to depict that place but as an avenue for other ideas. Clues to these ideas are usually in the titles. When traveling for any reason I am always on the lookout for landscape elements that I might be able to use. Water is such an important element and at risk of pollution, over exploitation, acidification etc so that has been a central element in recent years while I am always trying to find different ways of using it to express my ideas. So, in short, the location of the landscape used isn't really of interest to me but is a means of illustrating a universal idea.
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