Diptych - Sorrow and Suffering / 雙面圖 - 悲哀和苦難 / Diptychon - Traurigkeit und Leiden
Diptych - Sorrow and Suffering
Oil on Canvas
36" x 24" and 36" x 24"
Completed in 2003
Inventory # 2454.101.2003.06.006-007
© Matthew Felix Sun
Note: Published by Synchronized Chaos, an interdisciplinary art, poetry, literary, science, nature, cultural issues, and travel writing webzine, October 2009
Part of Matthew Felix Sun's Apocalypse Series
My Featured Work: Sorrow and Suffering, a Diptych Commemorating the Tragedies of our Time
Human history is sadly saturated with sorrow and suffering, a theme resonates strongly with me. In 2003, I made a diptych of oil paintings, titled "Sorrow and Suffering", to record the pain people suffered and will suffer at the hands of ruthless and/or reckless political leaders, when George W. Bush was brandishing his excuse to invade Iraq.
Since that fateful invasion, the unstable Mideast became ever more explosive and the human suffering ever escalated. Yesterday a series of concerted attacks on civilians in the great city Paris shocked and saddened the civilized world and this diptych expresses my feeling aptly.
Diptych - Sorrow and Suffering / 雙面圖 - 悲哀和苦難 / Diptychon - Traurigkeit und Leiden
Diptych - Sorrow and Suffering
Oil on Canvas
36" x 24" and 36" x 24"
Completed in 2003
Inventory # 2454.101.2003.06.006-007
© Matthew Felix Sun
Note: Published by Synchronized Chaos, an interdisciplinary art, poetry, literary, science, nature, cultural issues, and travel writing webzine, October 2009
Part of Matthew Felix Sun's Apocalypse Series
My Featured Work: Sorrow and Suffering, a Diptych Commemorating the Tragedies of our Time
Human history is sadly saturated with sorrow and suffering, a theme resonates strongly with me. In 2003, I made a diptych of oil paintings, titled "Sorrow and Suffering", to record the pain people suffered and will suffer at the hands of ruthless and/or reckless political leaders, when George W. Bush was brandishing his excuse to invade Iraq.
Since that fateful invasion, the unstable Mideast became ever more explosive and the human suffering ever escalated. Yesterday a series of concerted attacks on civilians in the great city Paris shocked and saddened the civilized world and this diptych expresses my feeling aptly.