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Below the Rust
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Published: 2002-11-25 16:15:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 760946; Favourites: 27097; Downloads: 49401
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Dusk's falling on my decadent reality. My everyday landscape keeps drowning, I'm a microscopic orange stain in a rusty universe. I hope you'll come tonight... Surprising thread of my thoughts, my guide and lover, let me cross again the dark frontier of my fantasies! So close but uncertain to reach, this blurry paradise hides behind my eyelids.Release me... and I'll fade like a drop in the infinite ocean of a dream.
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details and making of at zancan.fr
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'Below the Rust' is actually my biggest painting (it is 1.2 x 0.8 meters wide), and the one I have spent the longest time on. Five months, doing an average half-time work. The fact is that I can't help myself doing those small details that nobody can see. Using a 1-hair brush on a canvas that wide is totally insane!
This is only oil paint on canvas, but before starting to paint I made many sketches, and even a colorized version with photoshop (to set up the right colors).
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This is incredible, feels like salvador dali under water
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Quite incredible, one of those deviants that I wish I could see in real life. There are potentially many ways to interpret this piece. For me, I see a statement about the transition period of humanity.
The waterscape below is beautifully rendered and serene. It seems to be an ode to all of the best things in our collective past: culture, beauty and strength.
Yet it inexplicably turns to something sinister and barely recognisable above the thin waterline. I have the same impression of the world. This is a wonderful representation /illustration of that line
The future is catastrophised as a stark industrial waste land. The twilight sky seems to imply apocalypse. I like how the scrap metal tree seems to spring without roots. Is that a statement about the unsustainability of peak oil?
The connection between the female figure (humanity? mother nature?) and the fish is immediately heartbreaking. Both subjects have are weighed down, burdened and harsh. Yet they reach for one another with a most desperate and sincere longing in an action which reveals their genuine emotion and need which is still at the centre of their core. I also like that their imprisonment are the opposite yet the same.
In other words, stunning.
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OMG...........I like very much your work!
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wow. how strange. it's really good.
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well bro they say patience and diligence is a virture that pays. i like this one. its very contemplative i could write a series of poems inspired by this. maintain this methodical approach with painting it definitely reels in a profit.
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Wow, it's like looking into a dream. Awesome!
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mh. I don't know what to say. xD
spechless.
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LOVE it NO way i would have the patence for that! Im trying out for thefirst time oil painting...yea i have no idea what im doing. Any pointers plz?
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Ehh, again with the favorite-spamming, but I just can't help it! Each of your pieces conveys a meaning beneath the considerable beauty I see right there on the surface. I'll end up favoriting your whole gallery at this rate. 
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WOW!!!!! And doing this with oil paint made this look so much more fantastic!!!!
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beautiful. the details, the colours, everything.
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This is absolutely magnificent. I don't really know what else to say other than WOW. It's gorgeous. Good job, please don't stop.
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It's really really one of the best things I've ever seen!!
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It's one of those pieces that though I can only see part of it, I know there is an entire world to explore beyond the borders.
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Brilliant painting, I love the colors and the environment here!
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The thing I love most about this painting is the surreal, eerie beauty of an entire drowned city; the warm yet dreary surface world contrasting with the cool and empty underwater complex. I like particularly how you have meshed the natural and unnatural together and make it look completely right. Everything above is hard-edged whereas below it is soft and elegant; The metal scaled fish, with so much character in its sharply delineated head, sports a flowing tail beneath the waterline; a plain metal cylinder becomes a beautifully whorled tree stump clinging to the top of a tower archway; the woman's wear changing from cold metal to fine fabric.
But it not simply the immediate visual impact that makes your piece outstanding. Looking closer, one begins to realise just how much effort has been put in to creating and painting this. Everything is at such a level of complexity that even if we may not see every detail, we can easily imagine it there; at the vanishing point of the gray warehouses; in the minute, water-obscured mechanisms of the half-machine fish and the myriad ripples it creates; at the ends of the tiny curls of the tree roots; and the patterned facades of the buildings, their stairs slowly descending into obscurity and stretching out in a haze of blinding whiteness.
Lastly, I love the three perspective points; not simply because they add depth, but because you use them so well. Each of the three points convey a sense of limitless space and endlessness, never really 'stopping', but continuing beyond the line of sight. It adds a dream-like quality to the painting, a feeling of it being not-quite-real, but at the same time very true in the emotions of insignificance and ephemerality it evokes.
Great job in completing this, it is absolutely fantastic. 
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Most of my dreams are similar to this, guess I must be going crazy.
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what colors did you use in your palette?
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OMG! AMAZING QUALITY IN WORK! It looks almost like chalk art to me! 8D
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Beautiful picture. I love the concept. Gives off a very strong message. I see an exaggerated image depicting the loss of creativity and originality in our modern day world of artists.
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Amazing.. I love it....
The city below the city ..!
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I love this idea and its executed so well. I have no idea how u do stuff like this
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I love this. An intruiging concept fantastically done.
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wow what motive u to do the painting zancan? i love is one of my favor..........!no words for this painting. all i have 2 say wow......!
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Thanks for sharing your gifts. Amazingly captivating.
Phenomenal work.
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wow dude ur paintings are phenomenal!
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This one makes me shudder-in a good way, like seeing the stunning climactic ending to a movie or something
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damn. It's breath taking. It's as good as, if not better than, Dali
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