'Les Grands Effets de la Loi Martiale' Joss Nelson

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By Signature Art Prize 2022
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

98 × 141 × 0 cm

Materials:

Oil on Wood

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Painting

Large
2021
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This painting seeks to discuss the relationship between violence and the disguising power of beauty, within the immediate context of colonialism in East Asia during the first half of the Twentieth Century. My recent painting practice has developed around the combination of the human figure and natural landscape, and I think that the idea of beauty within art should not be entertained without observing its relative contexts. I am seeking to strengthen my understanding of historical context, and how this may reveal itself within our shared contemporary experience. It has become essential, in my practice, to combine and apply an awareness of the past to the process of working in the present. The inspiration for this work generates from the chronic lack of education surrounding the history of Empire, and the roles of Great Britain and Japan as forces for immense destruction and savagery. The national curriculum for secondary education in both countries omits the majority of this history, and I think it is vital to our understanding of the present that we reinforce this subject matter within our contemporary cultural conversation.

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