| SURREALIST PAINTINGS by GUY COLWELL |
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"Painter with Genet" 2007 acrylic on canvas |
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"Institutional
Warthog" 2005 acrylic on canvas We have built a wood, metal, plaster and plastic world that is isolated from true natural reality. The real world of creatures, trees, rivers, mountains, geologic processes, growth and decay has been fenced off to a great extent from our human environments. It would be a shocking strangeness to encounter a little of that living animal truth within our sealed space. The paradox is that we ourselves are products of evolutionary wildness. The animal truth is within us, and, while it may be built over and hidden, it is inescapable. Confronting it in ourselves may make us a little mad. This is one of a series on wild animal encounters in human environments. |
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"Little Theater" 2005 acrylic on canvas |
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"Apartment
Lion" 2005 acrylic on canvas |
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"Cafe" 2005 acrylic on canvas |
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"Platform" 2005 acrylic on canvas |
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"Woman and
Impala" 2007 acrylic on canvas |