Acrylic on Canvas
This painting is an appropriation of the amazing artist Vincent Van Gogh. I appropriated "A Starry
Night", "Chair with His Pipe", "Sunflowers" and "The Bedroom" by only using parts from each painting.
When I was in high school I was constantly told to look at established artists (specifically old artists) and draw from their ideas to then create my own. I always thought, why do I have to see an others idea to be able to make my own? So I came up with a painting to express my belief.
The ocean is a vast place where things can get lost, a place where things drift away. When objects pass the horizon, they disappear and are never seen again. This is what is happening to the objects in my painting, they are drifting away. The 'past' in the title relates to artworks from the past. They are in the past and therefore should stay there. We should not be looking to the past but to the future, at new artists of our time, not the old. The 'past' is 'drifting' away.
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