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‘Victorious The Butterfly’

“Butterfly with Seismic Waves” [June 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80gsm].

Please do kindly take note of  ‘Victorious The Butterfly‘ [trumpets 🎺 actually make sound here]:

‘Victorious The Butterfly‘

‘That butterfly against the full force of the vicious gale,

thrown off its destination by the sheer onslaught,

in awe I was, and now too for a surety as I write,

that the torrential waterfall had not broken its delicate structure into the allegorical smithereens,

seconds merged into a great heavenly battle,

the unrelenting jaws of the sky smashing it mercilessly,

Victorious The Butterfly, obscured under leaf,

as if its arthropodic intugement were hewn from solid gold,

cleaved nay impossibly I ought to explain,

somehow incomprehensibly made by the gods whom certainly knew the like of Perseus himself 🎬🎥’ 

– a writing by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, Copyright © 27th August 2019.

n.b. Oh do tell me you love this.  For if you do, you love Victorious The Butterfly as I do.

‘Victorious The Butterfly’ digital version for social media publication.

[image added post publishing date]

 

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‘Self Portrait of a Parrot’ [2010] Pastel underpainting, Oil on canvas

‘Self Portrait of a Parrot’ [2010] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, Pastel underpainting of an Oil on canvas, 20 ins x 16 ins.

As an adult artist ‘Self Portrait of a Parrot’ is actually my first experiment with oil paints.  Having produced a lovely pastel artwork, shown above, I decided to overpaint the pastel parrot in oil using the same canvas.

Here is my ‘Self Portrait of a Parrot’ oil on canvas overpainting:

‘Self Portrait of a Parrot’ [2010] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, Oil over Pastel artwork on canvas, 20 ins x 16 ins.

Detailed view of the texture (please click on the images to view full screen):

Detailed view [1] of ‘Self Portrait of a Parrot’ [2010] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, Oil over Pastel artwork on canvas, 20 ins x 16 ins.

A depth of field view focusing on the parrot’s eye (please click on the images to view full screen):

Depth of field view of the eye in ‘Self Portrait of a Parrot’ [2010] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, Oil over Pastel artwork on canvas, 20 ins x 16 ins.

My 2010 ‘Self Portrait of a Parrot’ Oil over Pastel painting is inspired by a photograph.  Creating texture appeals to me with most every oil painting.

Having purchased new canvases in 2012, I wanted to produce what I regard as professionally crafted oil paintings.  My oil painting ‘Creative Mind’ [2012] is the first of my professional artworks.

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Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi and the Physician Karl Andreyevich Rauchfus

‘The Mermaids‘ [1871] by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi, Oil on canvas, 88 cm (34.6 in) height x 132 cm (51.9 in) width.

In this blog article we will be perusing the artist Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (link courtesy of Wikipedia).

‘Portrait of an Unknown Woman‘ [1883] by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi, Oil on canvas, 75.5 cm (29.7 in) height x 99 cm (38.9 in) width.

The following words are written by Trenton B. Olsen:

“Finally, I thank my dear family.  Truly this degree and thesis belong to them as much as it does to me.

Any success I have had is due to the amazing support and sacrifice of my incredible wife, as well the smiles and giggles of my baby boy.”

You can read all about it by Trenton B. Olsen from the Department of Visual Arts, Brigham Young University and his scholarly article here:

URL link: Fallen Womanhood and Modernity in Ivan Kramskoi’s Unknown Woman (1883)

and in PDF format: Scholarly article by Trenton B Olsen (publicly published).

You can download either of these same-said links for further research at your own leisure.

‘Christ in the Wilderness‘ [1872] by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi, Oil on canvas, 180cm × 210cm.

‘Laughter! Hail, King of the Jews‘ [1877-82] by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi, Oil on canvas, The Depth vs The Height.“Imagine, really: there is a guy who says – only I know where salvation is. Well … fine, let’s dress him up as a jester-king … and seeing this show, everyone, everyone who was there roared with laughter … ” quotation by Kramskoi himself.

“I used to cry in the most Northern Place of My People.  They would see me and they would cry heavily with me in their hearts.  My People are in the East and the South Places too.  I have My People in the Islands throughout the Divers Places and in the Western Places where the Elk calls out like the Angel that made them strong.”

The Unfathomable Artist holds no specific political or religious affiliation other than with persons retaining the utmost moral regard for life.

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Self Portrait Of My Body

Self Portrait of My Body - oil painting on canvas. (28in x 36in) completed March 2014.

‘Self Portrait Of My Body’ – Oil painting on canvas, 28in x 36in, completed March 2014.

Spontaneity can be a sort of art I suppose.  No wonder Picasso was delighted when he found his Kahnweiler moment.

‘We speak with pigments from the Earth.

We are talking with our hands.

Debating with lines, curves, shapes and expressions.’

Hear now a shifting of thoughts like rocks hurled to the Earth.  If the Earth was not flat who would keep banging their drum to deny it?  If the Earth did not move around the Sun who would chastise those that disagreed?  Science changes.  It evolves.  Science is literally Knowledge.

Who laughs at the one who was laughed at before?  It’s all a matter for Time.  Continuously chasing the tail.  Encircling.  Eating the dust like worms.  Churning the land.  Too many absurdities.  How can anyone who is not like this one understand?

Even in one hundred years and ten there were none like this one to be seen.  A rarity.

Painting originates from rocks.  Oh words why do you keep on arriving constantly at a speed and rate {} cannot easily express to peoples?

Of origin.  Sinew itself almost speaks in the quietness.

I like to share these things with you.

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