Atomic Still Life with Shoes (Tribute to Andy Warhol) Print

Theme: PLAYING WITH THE ATOMIC BOMB It is estimated that at this time the nuclear warheads at the disposal of the various powers and superpowers (USA, Russia, France, UK, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea), amount to around 17.000 of which almost 4,000 ready to the throwing. The experience of man's life on earth, as it has been for thousands of years, at any moment could change drastically even considering, at best, a limited nuclear war. We all hope that these weapons of mass destruction ready to hit only serve as a deterrent, given the real change of humanity self-destruction, as it has been since the end of World War II until today. But I'm starting to be distressed, therefore I feel the need to make something to exorcize the fear for the constant threat of the nuclear weapons. One of the effects of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki that most impressed me is the shadows printed on the walls by the flash of the explosion: in the moment of the splitting of the atom of uranium (or plutonium) a large amount of energy is released, it generates a kind sun-fireball, whose thermal radiation, (they speak of hundreds of thousand of degrees), vaporize and / or carbonize everything is in the immediate vicinity. For a whole series of chemical-physical phenomena, the bodies and objects, interposed to the propagation of thermal radiation, absorbing part of the heat, leave their own shadow engraved on the rear surfaces. Since the etched shadows have a similarity with those made with the photographic technique, I thought about using this last one to print shadows as if they were made with a nuclear explosion, in other words as if used the atomic bomb to create artistic print. The most congenial technique to make this type of prints is certainly that of "gumoil", the prints are high-contrast and therefore free of intermediate grays, moreover, traditional oil colors are used as dyeing, just those that most painters he used for centuries.

Printmaking:gumoil on Cardboard

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:27.6 W x 19.7 H x 0 D in

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