Gideon Polya
Swan Lake
The "Swan Lake" painting narrates the story of the famous ballet. Swan Lake (1.3 x 2.9 metres) is painted on doubly primed canvas in acrylic. The geometrical scaffolding is double Golden Rectangle between upper and lower strips as in Pablo PIcasso's "Guernica", and superimposed upon a Mediaeval Muslim Tile Art pattern (as in the Alhambra, Spain)
The painting tells the story of the Tchaikovsky-orchestrated ballet "Swan Lake" in 4 Acts -in which (1) the Prince dances at Court, (2) he dances with Odette and the Swans in the Forest, (3) he is seduced by Odile at the Court and (4) The Prince and Odette plunging into the Lake, the Sorcerer dies and Odette expires on a dry lake bed (a metaphor for looming global warming catastrophe).
For a detailed discussion of the Swan Lake painting and its global warming metaphor see Gideon Polya, “Swan Lake. ”Swan Lake” Painting. Fear, Greed, Lying & Values, Biosphere & Market Collapse”: sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/swan-lake . For details of related huge paintings by Gideon Polya see "Art for Peace, Planet, Mother & Child": sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/home .
Climate Genocide.
The Climate Genocide website documents authoritative opinions of leading climate scientists, climate economists, climate analysts and world figures who predict a massive death toll from unaddressed, man-made global warming.
Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that fewer than 1 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming – noting that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050, these estimates translate to a climate genocide involving deaths of 10 billion people this century, this including 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims in a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis (see "Climate Genocide": sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ).
Of course, it just doesn't have to happen - thus see Professor James Hansen (NASA, GISS, Columbia University), “It’s possible to avert the climate crisis”, Countercurrents, 29 November 2009: www.countercurrents.org/hansen291109.htm .
Swan Lake
The "Swan Lake" painting narrates the story of the famous ballet. Swan Lake (1.3 x 2.9 metres) is painted on doubly primed canvas in acrylic. The geometrical scaffolding is double Golden Rectangle between upper and lower strips as in Pablo PIcasso's "Guernica", and superimposed upon a Mediaeval Muslim Tile Art pattern (as in the Alhambra, Spain)
The painting tells the story of the Tchaikovsky-orchestrated ballet "Swan Lake" in 4 Acts -in which (1) the Prince dances at Court, (2) he dances with Odette and the Swans in the Forest, (3) he is seduced by Odile at the Court and (4) The Prince and Odette plunging into the Lake, the Sorcerer dies and Odette expires on a dry lake bed (a metaphor for looming global warming catastrophe).
For a detailed discussion of the Swan Lake painting and its global warming metaphor see Gideon Polya, “Swan Lake. ”Swan Lake” Painting. Fear, Greed, Lying & Values, Biosphere & Market Collapse”: sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/swan-lake . For details of related huge paintings by Gideon Polya see "Art for Peace, Planet, Mother & Child": sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/home .
Climate Genocide.
The Climate Genocide website documents authoritative opinions of leading climate scientists, climate economists, climate analysts and world figures who predict a massive death toll from unaddressed, man-made global warming.
Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that fewer than 1 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming – noting that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050, these estimates translate to a climate genocide involving deaths of 10 billion people this century, this including 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims in a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis (see "Climate Genocide": sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ).
Of course, it just doesn't have to happen - thus see Professor James Hansen (NASA, GISS, Columbia University), “It’s possible to avert the climate crisis”, Countercurrents, 29 November 2009: www.countercurrents.org/hansen291109.htm .