Landscape symbolism
224 creative works found
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Mixed Media . 485×155cms. Avialable for sale. NO IT ISN’T. hah / $7000.00 / er sold it for $5000.00 last year. yay me ! This is a major work, possibly the most important I have done to date. The symbolism is layered, and not limited to narrative but actually manages to cross over into contemporary art for once (eek!) OK - Welllllll Firstly, the figures are all men and the title of the work is “Journeymen.” They are spread out across the desert as if they were going somewhere and yet none of them actually appear to be moving. This is a pretty direct metaphor for how I believe we really exist as men – we are all trying to go somewhere – we don’t know where – and the most important thing is to look like we are moving – even though, of course, we are actually not at all. That it is a desert is important also – the setting is our lives, our contemporary existence. Desolate indeed. / The surface; the very paint itself, contains everything that I could think of (and had handy) that was definitively masculine. It is made from plaster and paint, sand, dirt, beer, motor oil, grass, bourbon, cigarette ash, some facial hair somewhere… other things, I am sure, that I don’t remember. These ingredients are mixed into the paint. The landscape hence became thick and richly textured. I painted the figures themselves thinly and with limitations on my palette – they are far less real than the landscape that they are painted onto – as our own lives are transient while the earth endures. / They are in some kind of rough uniform to imply hegemony and the inescapability of our similarity as men. We are all, fundamentally; endemically doomed to similarity. We cannot escape from who we are. And finally the one figure not looking up – in the third panel from the left. This is me. I am wearing a suit that is too big for me. The pants fall loosely over my shoes and the cuffs cover my hands. I have never been able to share fulfilling these roles; this contemporary manhood in its glory and also in its doom. Utopia is its sister piece.
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summit cross on deep blue sky. Cima de la trosa. Switzerland.
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The mind searching out to understand, to question,questions..my judgement day….
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After a storm there’s the true green, that color which needs water and wind (a nuance not here). / After a storm I took this picture, in a moment of giving up – the dark side is sliding here. / (and there’s an antenna) / Do you receive my words and thoughts and gestures? / Do you receive me? (an example of the different meaning a photo can take, changing colours)
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It’s out there. The painting makes use of the hand-drawn sketch as a basis with the end painting being the beginning and end for color palette definition, meaning colorized from the heart and head through the brush and onto the canvas with no intervening studies. This work has was featured in the Avant Garde group after having placed 5th in the Homage to Dali Challenge hosted by that group. September 2009 It was also featured in the Let’s Pay Homage group, also in September 2009. Calendars for Friends Surreal Paintings Calendar / Surreal Watercolors Calendar Glacier National Park Calendar / Roses Calendar / Works Featured in Red Bubble Groups
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The flag of New South Wales, Australia. Taken from the back of a ferry on the way to Taronga zoo in Sydney.
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Another view of this famous iconic symbol of Sydney Australia.
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Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa More of my work can be viewed at © Hasselbach Photography
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Erasmus bridge at night, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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pure
by linda blannrose
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drawing, oilpastel on paper
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painting, oil on canvas
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Version with white surround. See my website for more; jennymeehan.co.uk jennymeehan.co.uk jennymeehan.co.uk
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Perhaps, this childish toy can have more tales from your life than you should think…
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One summer’s day while painting in my studio my thoughts turned to past generations as I listened to the melodic notes of a new song our daughter was composing in her room. Born in Sydney, I have always loved the Australian bush and the vibrant colours of the outback. Ancestral Song captures the essence of this land – the stark leafless tree, the summer heat, the shimmering silhouette of an old goanna climbing the tree, / transparent golden orbs floating in the air, symbolic of the spirits of all Australians who have a strong connection with their land.
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Plastic World
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Acrylics on Masonite Stonehenge painted within a circle of turquoise Dimensions: 16” x 16” / Original for sale – $289.00 / Custom framed in Pecan wood
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© 2009 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved ~~ An editorial collage: an expansive farm field of grain overlaid with images of high-rise apartments. A symbol of the rapidly-dwindling American family farms, which are being plowed under and replaced with concrete and steel.
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Acrylic on canvas
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White star painted on red brick wall. The star and dot were painted as graffiti on alley wall in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The simple image stood out against the otherwise unadorned wall.
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Peaceful stroll along Formby Beach, UK.
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Two icons of the Peak District… Thorpe Cloud and the ubiquitous Peak District Millstone boundary signs.
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