|
#286 Title of Work: "Christina's World" 1993 Medium: Oil on canvas, Dimensions: 18" x 24" Private Collection of Gene Wood (Owner's Title - "Art Viewing the 20th Century") |
Christina's World
painting by Gerald King
|
#286 Title of Work: "Christina's World" 1993 Medium: Oil on canvas, Dimensions: 18" x 24" Private Collection of Gene Wood (Owner's Title - "Art Viewing the 20th Century") |
Christina broods
in the dark vaulted gallery of the prestigious art archive. Her awesome beauty is an
allegory of realism crippled by barbarians disguised as champions of civility. She
reflects upon the trashing of truth begat by intellectuals and artists of lesser purpose
and abilities who today embrace human excrement as their greatest artistic achievement.
It was not her entombment with the great masters of the past and the century long
invective attacks upon her value that causes Christina to brood. It is the barbarian's
contemptuousness in comparing their childish scribbles to the awesome artistic
achievements of the Old Masters, their glorification of gibberish, and their denunciation
of visual truth and beauty which makes Christina roil.
But the dawn cometh and realism stirs from a restless sleep. Christina will leave the tomb of the past and once again walk in the sunshine of a new day. There will be no mausoleum for the barbarians who locked Christina away for a century.
Gerald King 1994 Your Comments are welcome