Acrylic on Canvas
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A Bear, after The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David.
We had a real estate agent in our apartment recently we chatted for about an hour. I didn’t once see him look at this painting at all during our conversation but when he was about to leave he looked at me, pointing at it and said. “That’s a bit sad, isn’t it mate? That’s a bit sad.”…
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The Scientists, after The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Hans Holbein the Younger’s, The Ambassadors which was painted in 1533 and is housed at the National Gallery in London is full of symbolism and it has been long debated what various elements of the painting represent. Some believe it represents religious discord between secular scholars and clergy, others think Holbein was making a statement about capitalism and the…
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Animal Cannibal Series
The Animal Cannibal series came about after a driving trip my partner and I took through the Victorian countryside. It seemed that every town we went through had a butcher and the depictions of the animals on the windows and signage showed the animals as passive or happy. I have always found the image…
Jason T. Austin. 