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The University of Amusement
Michelangelo Zetterquist
(see more by this artist)
The Man in the Wheelchair Painting 4
(paint & pen and ink)
Detail 1 Title.
See also The Thinker Detail 7 The Comedy
I borrowed a detail from Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing. At first I didn't want to make it identical to Fragonard's swinging mistress this is why it looks different on the canvas. Later I decided that I liked the idea of a reproduction so I decided to do a pen and ink sketch of the woman swinging. He painted it in 1766 and it was created bawdy, loaded with sexual symbolism. I wasn't originally looking to match his controversy but to show a partial study of amusement. I read a few commentaries on it and wasn't happy with some of its shallowness so I decided to make a go at my own. She is depicted with her shoe flying in the air, it makes the swinging figure more interesting that she is doing this. She is out of control or is she? There are two men in the original accompanying the main character, in my painting I represent these men as two cars on a roller coaster and she is painted on the front of each. She is swinging her way through a red gas pump hose that is snapping in two and leaking. In my experience of having a good time (Yin) I have always been plagued by the (Yang) dark side of it all. Say you are one who is so fortunate and healthy, having the time of your life, then you see a homeless person or a terrible car crash. The other day I was working on my one of my paintings. Just plugging away at it and enjoying myself. I was about to reach that 'top of the world' high, when the radio announcer mentioned an unfortunate soldier who had his legs and arms blown off. He was currently returning home wheelchair bound from Iraq. I feel a great way to look at this is in the way of the Taoist philosophy Yin, Yang. You cannot have the good without the bad. Light cannot happen without casting a shadow, and sometimes when you swing high you lose your shoes. I painted The Swing's figure kicking and breaking a gas line. It represents man and his tendency to unintentionally destroy. He ruins his surroundings while he is building something, or pollutes the air while blowing off steam on a well earned vacation. It just goes along with my belief that all things tend toward chaos. Hawking says that you cannot move your little finger without expending some energy and thus causing more entropy. Entropy is the universes tendency to travel in the direction of disorder. If you kick your shoe off while you are swinging in a tree the chances are zero that the shoe will jump back up off the ground and fasten its self to back on your foot. All things are traveling in one direction and not a good one. The good news is that you can always jump off of the rope and re-attach the shoe. For some reason we are allowed an illusion of completing things and it makes for a good time.
Painting 4 Title.
See also The Thinker Detail 7 The Comedy
I painted this red figure in a red dress. The dress represents a lady of the evening she is a balance between business and pleasure. A roller coaster rolls around her above and below moving
empty. Passing cars pacing doing time.
I'm guessing it may mean the spirit next
to me filling the empty seat. Imagine the seat next to you or even the car above enjoying that place filled with empty space filled with non-stuff (living) non-stuff they used to be hollow with no color in them but I've
added red pillows. Once again red for lust. The whole vehicle reminding me of a casket red for death. I kind of like the idea of a casket rolling on life's perilously exhilarating tracks. Dante's divine comedy a car for heaven and a car for hell. One mans desert is another mans paradise. Looming giant figures (The Shades) or is it The Three Nymphs. Light and shadow, up and down.
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| Acrylic on canvas 4ft x 4ft |
$7,000.00 |
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| 20" x 16" print on canvas |
$500.00 |
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