A little while ago I presented the making of my painting "Revelation", also known as the "One Million Dollar Piece". Today I would like to invite you to take a closer look at some of the details
The name "One Million Dollar Piece" comes from the project of a French artist group called Libellule. Each year the participating artists get a theme and a few parameters to create a painting for a group show. In this case we were given the size, 100x230cm (40"x90")..which is rather big for me and in the upper right corner there was to be written $ 1000000
Although I incorporated a few elements of the one Dollar note, the painting is really quite critical of today's (centralized) systems and reveals the makings and dealings behind the fake facade...
Of course, the system tries to distract and manipulate with elements of beauty...
or brainwashing and keeping our attention captured with nonsense and propaganda...
A big machinery behind it all!
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Thanks for poetic explanation, it enhanced my viewing. Beautiful piece!
Thank you for your kind words, glad you like it!
There are so many elements to this piece i love how you showed them separately first, then we get the final reveal at the end! Very cool :)
Hehe building up some tension by not revealing it all at once 😉 Lots of elements and details for sure, took forever to complete!
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Consistently intelligent and masterful. I appreciate your sense of wit.
Thank you so very much, not sure if I can live up to that. 😀
So complex, I believe each peace of yours takes lot of time for preparation and thinking.
btw, are you participating in 2018, I am asking since I saw Zeljko Djurovic is preparing new painting for Paris :)
Yes, this one took forever. I think its the most complex painting I have done so far.
Are you talking about the piece for coming Salon Comparaisons? I took a break this time, as I had no good idea with the theme. I'm in again with the next one, which is to be finished in 2018 and shown in February 2019... theme is (as you might know) top secret ;-)
This is such an amazing piece and the trompe l'eoil effect of certain elements make such a nice counter balance to the decorative arts quality of the money insignia and butterfly woman. A very strong piece which really pulls me in. I could stare at the blue ribbon for hours. Very evocative.
Thank you so very much. We just came back from a short trip, where we also visited the owner of the painting. It actually surprises myself, when I see it today and I wonder how I did some of the things..
Wow! There is so much detail in this one! Thanks for the interesting story behind the art
Thank you very much for stopping by and checking out my little story :-)
For sure you love details. Looks like a hell lot of work. :)
...yep, just read it in the other comments & your answers. What a peace!
I envy you visual artists some times. It is for the viewer so much easier to "consume" your work. For a writer like me, I first fill your eyes with letters, letters, letters. Make you work.
But I do not complain. Just a little stingy feeling and then it's gone again.
:) take care & hopefully I see you soon in my (blog) hood.
It sure was a ton of work, but it found a very good home by now and I'm glad I can still see it about once a year.
Haha.. yes, they say it only takes a fraction of a second to perceive a picture... on the other hand, It may be hard to have the "consumers" attention for much more than that... which you definitely have with a written text, as long as it is interesting enough... which I'm not so sure of with mine and therefore deliberately keep it short. So chances are, people read at least half of it ;-)