#acrylic painting
Sierra
IG: BryMarpaints
I painted this over the weekend and personally I wasn’t too sure about it but lots of people seem to like it so here it is.
I Painted A Thing, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 20 inches
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“Nanke Dream” (南柯一梦)
“The Governor of Nanke” (南柯太守传) is a Tang dynasty short story about a man living an entire generation in the great kingdom of Ashendon, only to suddenly wake up and realize it was all a dream. Despite the vividness of that world, and the seeming passing of time, only a few hours had gone by. This legend is curiously similar to “Alice in Wonderland”, where the main protagonist travels to a fantasy world of her own in the hopes of finding herself. Clearly, the subject of dreams has been embedded into the very fabric of our being. While some theories suggest dreams are due to random brain activation, most agree with the Freudian theory which claims that they can reveal hidden emotions and desires. A royal road to the unconscious if you will! In ancient Rome and Greece, people believed dreams were messages sent directly from the gods that could predict the future. Whether we’re talking about interpreting the past or the time ahead it’s clear there is hidden meaning in our reveries. I wonder what secrets we’ll uncover when the lights turn off.
102*102cm
RGB LED display, acrylic painting, Vietnamese linen, teakwood
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“Rapt With Wine And Moon” (美酒美月)
The Yangtze never looked so cozy as the night Li Bai tried to hug the moon. The old tale goes something like this: Li Bai, a famous drunk and poet, was, well, drunk. Of course he was also artsy, and you know how artsy folks get when they drink, right? On that fateful night Li Bai took his boat out to the middle of the Yangtze River (because why not?). What he found in the middle of the river was the moon, staring up at him. “Three cheers!” he may have said as he moved in to embrace his old friend. Li Bai drowned that night, but his poems live on forever. Li Bai is sort of like a Chinese Dionysus—except Li Bai was a man and not a god. Li Bai has been honored as the great man he was by artists through the generations. Soami painted him in nature, and our Liu Dao collective calligraphs his poems in wild cursive script while enraptured in the warm fuzzy glow of a wine buzz as one stumbling down the mountain after perfecting drunken Kung Fu.
146*206cm
Chinese ink and acrylic painting on canvas, teakwood
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