(Im)possible no.4 Mourning

 

Complete triptych:  (Im)possible no. 4 – Mourning

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Canvas 1  – Friday (death)

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Canvas 2 - Saturday (mourning)

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Canvas 3 – Sunday (rebirth)

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Size:   600mm x 600mm , 1200mm x 600mm , 600mm x 600mm

Medium:  Acrylic on Canvas

Youth Mourning – a painting by George Clausen

 

As I reflect on the process of mourning, I am for a moment, stepping aside from the deconstructionist philosophy of Jacque Derrida and Post Modernism and  looking purely at the emotional and expressive reality of the event.

While viewing various works by other artists, I was deeply moved by the sorrow expressed in this painting.

 

 

 The following description is taken from the Imperial War Museum, London, where the painting is on display:

“Sir George Clausen was an established Royal Academician when he painted Youth Mourning in 1916 at the age of 64.  It represents his personal reaction to the loss of a generation of young British soldiers during the conflict, and particularly to the death of his daughter Katharine’s fiance.

Youth, represented as a vulnerable young woman, mourns the death of her love, and by extension, the deaths of all young soldiers.  In the distance are the flooded battlefield craters.  This allegorical work combines traditional classicism and Christian symbolism with the stark landscape of the Western Front.”

(Im)possible no.3 – Forgive

 

 

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(Im)possible no.2 – Hospitality

      

(Im)possible no.1 – Gift

     

        

 

 

Acrylic on canvas: 1000mm X 500mm

Parallel and the (im)possible.

 

 

Acrylic on canvas: 1000mm X 700mm

 

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Change of view, change of eye, same head – Parallax I , II , III

Three paintings:  Acrylic on canvas  400mm X 800mm

               

    Parallax I

       

                 

       

Triptych – Supernatural Change

    

  

Please click on the thumbnails to enlarge:

   

 Acrylic on canvas :  160cm x 135cm

  

The triptych form arises from early Christian art, and was the standard format for altar paintings from the Middle Ages onwards (definition from: Wikipedia)

In the Dark

                                                                                                              

An acrylic painting on canvas  55cm X 55cm

Staring at the darkness of Light

Elements of Hope

I see the Light. But what is it?