Pandemic
Durasi: 04:42
Oleh: Bruce Robbert Sherratt
Asal: Bali
Deskripsi:
The painting is a triptych consisting of 3 canvas panels on wooden frames measuring 79 x 247 centimeters. Total size of triptych - 237 x 247 cm.
The medium is a combination of pure liquid pigments and oil paint on stretched canvas coated with a WINSOR AND NEWTON High Gloss Varnish. The 3
wood stretcher frame panels are bolted together with 6 removable bolts at the back of the stretcher frames. Work on the 3 panels commenced early in
May 2020 and was finished on June 24, 2020.
Aims and Meaning.
In one of the most important books in the history of modern art - Concerning The Spiritual In Art, 1912, Kandinsky wrote - ‘Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age (this is the element of style) dictated by the period and particular country to which the artist belongs.
Throughout the more 50 years I have been painting I have embraced Kandinsky’s theory of the Inner Need, or Inner Necessity, including the need to express not only my inner self, but the inner reality of the time (or times) in which I live and work. Consistent with this outlook my aim was not to paint ABOUT the pandemic but to absorb, capture and express the unavoidable ATMOSPHERE created by the pandemic worldwide. Naturally the impact on my life and the lives of my family and friends and the human hardship and suffering in Bali and around the world was and is included in the ATMOSPHERE of the pandemic. As a surrealist, the subconscious and unconscious effects are as intense and real to me as the sickness, suffering and death. My ‘PANDEMIC’ triptych is cathartic. It is the expression of my own existence up to and including this time and of the time itself.
A time of-
Fear, faith and foolishness, contagion, conscience, cowardice, courage, panic, paranoia, paradox, perplexity, misplaced patriotism or partisanship, suicide,
self-sacrifice, disease, delusion, disbelief and disgust. There is guilt, greed, gluttony, guile and goodness. There is remorse, reproach, remonstration,
restraint, anger and anxiety accompanied by hypocrisy, hyperbole, humanity and inhumanity, ignorance, integrity, stupidity, serenity, tyranny, tolerance and tediousness, virulence, virus, virtue, viciousness, deceit, dishonor and disaster. There is love and loathing, hate, heroes, hostility, tragedy, torpor, tediousness and tenacity. There are givers and takers, the overfed, the starving, horror, hostility, tension, turmoil, sanity, insanity and uncertainty - doubt, confusion, sometimes brilliance, sometimes dull-witted stupidity, ignorance, life and death.
Perhaps hope whispers in the paradox of beauty and art, where at least the notion of metamorphosis and rebirth can speak through the harmony of forms and colors.
The medium is a combination of pure liquid pigments and oil paint on stretched canvas coated with a WINSOR AND NEWTON High Gloss Varnish. The 3
wood stretcher frame panels are bolted together with 6 removable bolts at the back of the stretcher frames. Work on the 3 panels commenced early in
May 2020 and was finished on June 24, 2020.
Aims and Meaning.
In one of the most important books in the history of modern art - Concerning The Spiritual In Art, 1912, Kandinsky wrote - ‘Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age (this is the element of style) dictated by the period and particular country to which the artist belongs.
Throughout the more 50 years I have been painting I have embraced Kandinsky’s theory of the Inner Need, or Inner Necessity, including the need to express not only my inner self, but the inner reality of the time (or times) in which I live and work. Consistent with this outlook my aim was not to paint ABOUT the pandemic but to absorb, capture and express the unavoidable ATMOSPHERE created by the pandemic worldwide. Naturally the impact on my life and the lives of my family and friends and the human hardship and suffering in Bali and around the world was and is included in the ATMOSPHERE of the pandemic. As a surrealist, the subconscious and unconscious effects are as intense and real to me as the sickness, suffering and death. My ‘PANDEMIC’ triptych is cathartic. It is the expression of my own existence up to and including this time and of the time itself.
A time of-
Fear, faith and foolishness, contagion, conscience, cowardice, courage, panic, paranoia, paradox, perplexity, misplaced patriotism or partisanship, suicide,
self-sacrifice, disease, delusion, disbelief and disgust. There is guilt, greed, gluttony, guile and goodness. There is remorse, reproach, remonstration,
restraint, anger and anxiety accompanied by hypocrisy, hyperbole, humanity and inhumanity, ignorance, integrity, stupidity, serenity, tyranny, tolerance and tediousness, virulence, virus, virtue, viciousness, deceit, dishonor and disaster. There is love and loathing, hate, heroes, hostility, tragedy, torpor, tediousness and tenacity. There are givers and takers, the overfed, the starving, horror, hostility, tension, turmoil, sanity, insanity and uncertainty - doubt, confusion, sometimes brilliance, sometimes dull-witted stupidity, ignorance, life and death.
Perhaps hope whispers in the paradox of beauty and art, where at least the notion of metamorphosis and rebirth can speak through the harmony of forms and colors.
