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The Struggle for Existence, painted in 1879
by George Bouverie Goddard (1832-86)
Oil paint on canvas
This painting featured in the 1879 Liverpool Autumn Exhibition at the Walker. Goddard's inspiration was probably Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, 1859. Darwin used the expression "The Struggle for Existence" to discuss his theory of natural selection.
The Magazine of Art selected this as one of the pictures of the year in 1879, saying: 'It illustrates a law of the community of wolves who...engage every year in a deadly civil war in which the "fittest survive." '
Goddard was a self-taught animal painter, born in Salisbury.
Montmartre, Paris, France 2009.
Postcard featuring the Eiffel Tower on the way to the Basilica of Sacred Heart (Sacre Coeur).
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Dion says, “Objects speak, and they expand that speech in syntax – objects in relation to other objects... I make meaning by contextualizing and combining elements... Gaining knowledge through an encounter with objects that share my existence in time and space... practices remain rooted in an investigation of material culture” (Courtney, 194). This concept can be related to the ‘selfie’ in terms of who the photo is for. Is it for the person to document that specific moment, action, event, or place for themselves as a record or reminder or is it to display for others? Is choosing to put oneself in the photo serving to make a connection with whoever views the photo? Or is it just a form of narcissism? Dion says, “In the works that explore archaeological or museological display, the fulcrum is that viewers must find themselves in the piece. These works must defy the logic of thinking about history as events and situation of which we are somehow not part” (Courtney, 197). Can viewers find themselves in the photo easier if the photographer wasn’t in the shot? Or does having a person’s face add to the human connection making it more relatable? I don’t think creating a ‘selfie’ of ‘archaeological or museological display’ is antithesis to this concept if the purpose of the artist (‘selfie’ taker) is to place them within that image to feel like they are part of that history or event. In this contemporary context, facebook and flickr are the museums for ‘selfies’, an archaeological record of our social behaviors and relationships.
4me4you visits Pilars Corrias Gallery which featured the artist Peppi Bottrop - “Jungle Rapture”.
Described as “the manic cartography of an urban flaneur”, Bottrop’s compositions may resemble the frayed infrastructure and overlapping freeway feeders of the Ruhr area. But they also brim with alternative routes, some of which border the realm of science fiction, where concepts of time and existence have long become fluid. Over the past few years, the artist’s characteristic choppy dashes have become more fluid, almost arabesque. Imbued with a sense of indispensability, they evoke the romantic idea of an innate drive that turns the subject into an art-producing animal, placing the work of art in direct analogy to the product of nature. As if fuelled by remnants of the fossil energy inherent in his brittle trademark medium, Bottrop’s charcoal marks proliferate and overgrow other elements in the composition
The compositions are permeated by unusual amounts of metallic surfaces and brushstrokes—results of the painter’s lush use of powdered aluminium. His rusty red grids are blanketed by their glossy opposite: expanses of shiny silver, organic in shape and alive with reflections, as if to counter the old dichotomies of nature and culture, man, and machine. The fleeting memory of an alloy-rimmed joyride fades into the background, where it blends with the silver of the gallery walls. Consciously or not, Bottrop has us mesmerised in the belly of a huge machine, a vessel of sorts, turning his canvases into windows out onto unknown terrain, where remnants of our industrial past are churned up by natural powers, entangled in a most intriguing symbiosis.
Once again with the color scape of the last submission. I tend to go through color phases so to speak. Right now its these dusk kinda of colors, and yes other then some levels and higher contrast, thats the colors i saw ;)
I was trying to get this power plant by Lake Ray Hubbard, and gave up because of this fence, and so instead i got a pic of said fence.
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