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Casperium [2008-12-09 23:26:17 +0000 UTC]
This is excellent!!! when I have more time I will look at the rest of your gallery.I love surreal artwork.
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Chyme12 In reply to Casperium [2008-12-10 00:15:36 +0000 UTC]
Thanx a lot! The photo doesn't do it justice. There are many details not clear. For instance, the figures all carry wrenches and spanners, to 'lumb in ' society. The pope figure carries a wrench in the form of a cross. The christ-like figure is not plumbed in, but crucified on the pipes. Sating he was not a part of the system but was killed by the system.
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gracelikerain316 [2007-10-22 23:28:19 +0000 UTC]
this is a complex piece with a lot of symbolism I don't quite understand. but it is well executed and has a 'sinister' feel dispite the colour pallette being quite light. well done. lots of different religious undertones.. would love to have it explained but realise that the explanation would ruin the bigger picture of it no doubt. as so often happens with art.. often best undissected.
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Chyme12 In reply to gracelikerain316 [2007-10-23 13:16:22 +0000 UTC]
Thanx Lisa. I consider this to be my most inspired work, conceptually speaking. I had just come into some very mind blowing information and needed to express it in this visual form. It was completed in around 1994 after I attended a conference in London about 'Exposing a world conspiracy'.
A lot of detail is unclear because of poor photography. I cant take another photo as the painting is no longer in my possession.
The painting flows from left to right, starting with the great pyramid which is 'twixt Heaven and Earth. The pyramid is a potent symbol of the structure of power.Which is why 'they' have it on the Dollar bill. All the little people form the mass, but only one brick can be at the top.....it is the world power system. If you trace the 7 (number of completeness) pipes which emerge from its base, you will detect at least 2 swastika's one is reversed. Then at least two 6's (number of man) can be traced. 'They' are near to completing the next 6, to make the number of the Beast.
On the ground you can see various characters with wrenches and spanners in their hands. These are the 'lumbers Mates'. The first has a camera upon his head, he of course is the Media. The next has a bowler hat and a barcode on his face. He is the politician. Then we have the world religions, the Pope has crossed wrenches (spanners). They are each doing their part of '
lumbing in' humanity. On the right, lifted up t'wixt Heaven and Earth is the 'Holy One'. He is crucified ON the pipes but He is not Of the pipes like everyone else. Then there is the door opened in Heaven. The only means of escape.
I hope it makes sense to you.
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gracelikerain316 In reply to Chyme12 [2007-10-24 19:05:17 +0000 UTC]
Very interesting. :nods: thank you for explaining the broader concept.. very clever...
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LastLivingDragon [2006-07-13 13:44:02 +0000 UTC]
Wow! This is really brilliant, I haven't seen much the like of original pieces (yes, including my stuff! ) on this site..thanks for livening it up!
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LastLivingDragon In reply to Chyme12 [2006-07-14 07:40:40 +0000 UTC]
It's a pleasure...and so far as a message goes in this piece--I firmly believe that even though the artist sets out to make a point, everyone is entitled to their own perception, so mine might really not link up to your original idea but it is a positive one indeed!Besides, going to an art school enriches your mind to critisize and compliment at the same time
And so far as the Anime thing goes...tehehe...it's good having an older sister to copy when your a little kid--I was way ahead of my time concerning Manga so it's fazed out already. And I do get what you mean about the fairies and unicorns *shakes head*.
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rocketdave [2006-05-13 00:08:17 +0000 UTC]
Well, I recognize Magritte in there. I'm afraid I'm not well versed enough in art to know if the other figures are references to other works of art, but anyway, this is really good.
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Chyme12 In reply to rocketdave [2006-05-13 20:31:03 +0000 UTC]
hello again and tanx! I can see where you can see Margritte.........but maybe what you can't see is in the detail (my fault,bad photograph ) is that where Magritte had an apple in front of the haed.....mine has a BARCODE, which I find is contempory with the age of our digital prison. Yeah, also there is an obvious Dali ripoff, but it is relevant.
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rocketdave In reply to Chyme12 [2006-05-14 01:18:14 +0000 UTC]
Oh, right, the crucifixion part looked familiar, but I wasn't able to say with certainty where I knew it from. And yeah, the barcode isn't very clear. Taking a second look at this, the plumbing kind of reminds me a little bit of the dystopic movie "Brazil," where pneumatic tubes ran everywhere.
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Chyme12 In reply to rocketdave [2006-05-14 18:15:54 +0000 UTC]
Hi Rocketman.......you've just shown me a link with my subconscious with that connection with 'Brazil' One of my favorite films by Terry Gilliam!
But until you actually mentioned it, I was entirely unaware of that particular metaphor in this painting...........even Robert DeNiro played a cameo as a 'PLUMMER'. You'd have thought that I'd almost painted the advertising for the movie! Of course, the pipes are an obvious metaphor representing the 'system' and if you look carefully, you can see all kinds of Masonic symbolism.........the language of the secret societies who I see as the plumbers connecting humanity up to 'their ' system. That movie Brazil was awsome and never got the recognition that it deserved!
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MahouTragicQueen [2006-05-03 21:07:17 +0000 UTC]
I really like the shading on the pipes. You put a lot of effort into this and it shows.
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Chyme12 In reply to MahouTragicQueen [2006-05-05 07:58:04 +0000 UTC]
thanx , it does have a sinister message really...........the shade is also on the devious characters portrayed!
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