Grace Graupe-Pillard - Desecrated Landscapes and Displaced
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Desecrated Landscape: Mingora -Swat ValleyPakistanLandscapes that have been desecrated by war and violence, but still retain their majestic beauty. The fissures and cracks are not always visible, but their history is embedded in the roots and ancestry of the land.
Desecrated Landscape: Mingora - Pakistan, oil/alkyd/canvas, 69"x96", 2010
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Desecrated Landscape:Poppy Field - AfghanistanDesecrated Landscape: Poppy Field-Afghanistan, oil/alkyd/canvas, 65"x 120", 2010
DESECRATED LANDSCAPES PAINTINGS – 2009-2011
Landscapes that have been desecrated by war and violence, but still retain their majestic beauty. The fissures and cracks are not always visible, but the fragmented abstract painted forms allude to the decomposition and dissolution of nature breached and ruptured.
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Desecrated Landscape: Nanga Parbat - Pakistan.jpgDesecrated Landscape: Nanga Parbat/Pakistan, oil/alkyd/canvas, 65"x114", 2009/10
DESECRATED LANDSCAPES PAINTINGS – 2009-2011
Landscapes that have been desecrated by war and violence, but still retain their majestic beauty. The fissures and cracks are not always visible, but the fragmented abstract painted forms allude to the decomposition and dissolution of nature breached and ruptured.
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Desecrated Landscape: Pakistan - Swat ValleyDesecrated Landscape: Pakistan-Swat Valley, oil/alkyd/canvas, 65"x114", 2009/10
DESECRATED LANDSCAPES PAINTINGS – 2009-2011
Landscapes that have been desecrated by war and violence, but still retain their majestic beauty. The fissures and cracks are not always visible, but the fragmented abstract painted forms allude to the decomposition and dissolution of nature breached and ruptured.
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Desecrated Landscape: Afghanistan-Parvan ProvinceDesecrated Landscape: Afghanistan - Parvan Province, 65"x120", 2009/10
DESECRATED LANDSCAPES PAINTINGS – 2009-2011
Landscapes that have been desecrated by war and violence, but still retain their majestic beauty. The fissures and cracks are not always visible, but the fragmented abstract painted forms allude to the decomposition and dissolution of nature breached and ruptured.
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WoundedWounded, oil/alkyd/canvas, 60"x84", 2005
MANIPULATION/DISPLACED PAINTINGS 2002-2011
In a world where terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and cultural upheaval have dominated the news headlines, these paintings focus on the devastating effect of war and its impact on the civilian population. Entitled DISPLACED, this series correlates the displacement of civilians in war-torn countries with a visual disintegration of form, evident in both the creative process and in the final painted product. In each painting, the chaos of cultural disintegration is symbolized by the fragmentation of the picture plane. With repeated editing, I appropriate images from journalistic sources, “blowing apart the reality” of the photograph so that the final result is distilled and disintegrated from its original context, and reduced into unpredictably flatly colored eccentric shapes further emphasizing the fragmentation of form and removal from its original source. The process of translating these manipulated images into oil paintings involves a change in scale, color and texture, portraying a seductive beauty that reflects the political "sanitization" of the horrors of war.
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ShelterShelter, oil/alkyd/canvas, 65"x96", 2011
MANIPULATION/DISPLACED PAINTINGS 2002-2011
In a world where terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and cultural upheaval have dominated the news headlines, these paintings focus on the devastating effect of war and its impact on the civilian population. Entitled DISPLACED, this series correlates the displacement of civilians in war-torn countries with a visual disintegration of form, evident in both the creative process and in the final painted product. In each painting, the chaos of cultural disintegration is symbolized by the fragmentation of the picture plane. With repeated editing, I appropriate images from journalistic sources, “blowing apart the reality” of the photograph so that the final result is distilled and disintegrated from its original context, and reduced into unpredictably flatly colored eccentric shapes further emphasizing the fragmentation of form and removal from its original source. The process of translating these manipulated images into oil paintings involves a change in scale, color and texture, portraying a seductive beauty that reflects the political "sanitization" of the horrors of war.
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ExileExile, oil/alkyd/canvas, 66"x94", 2011
MANIPULATION/DISPLACED PAINTINGS 2002-2011
In a world where terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and cultural upheaval have dominated the news headlines, these paintings focus on the devastating effect of war and its impact on the civilian population. Entitled DISPLACED, this series correlates the displacement of civilians in war-torn countries with a visual disintegration of form, evident in both the creative process and in the final painted product. In each painting, the chaos of cultural disintegration is symbolized by the fragmentation of the picture plane. With repeated editing, I appropriate images from journalistic sources, “blowing apart the reality” of the photograph so that the final result is distilled and disintegrated from its original context, and reduced into unpredictably flatly colored eccentric shapes further emphasizing the fragmentation of form and removal from its original source. The process of translating these manipulated images into oil paintings involves a change in scale, color and texture, portraying a seductive beauty that reflects the political "sanitization" of the horrors of war.
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Burning LightBurning Light, oil/alkyd/canvas,65"x98", 2008
MANIPULATION/DISPLACED PAINTINGS 2002-2011
In a world where terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and cultural upheaval have dominated the news headlines, these paintings focus on the devastating effect of war and its impact on the civilian population. Entitled DISPLACED, this series correlates the displacement of civilians in war-torn countries with a visual disintegration of form, evident in both the creative process and in the final painted product. In each painting, the chaos of cultural disintegration is symbolized by the fragmentation of the picture plane. With repeated editing, I appropriate images from journalistic sources, “blowing apart the reality” of the photograph so that the final result is distilled and disintegrated from its original context, and reduced into unpredictably flatly colored eccentric shapes further emphasizing the fragmentation of form and removal from its original source. The process of translating these manipulated images into oil paintings involves a change in scale, color and texture, portraying a seductive beauty that reflects the political "sanitization" of the horrors of war.
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Afghanistan WomenAfghanistan Women, oil/acrylic/alkyd/canvas, 65"s90", 2011
MANIPULATION/DISPLACED PAINTINGS 2002-2011
In a world where terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and cultural upheaval have dominated the news headlines, these paintings focus on the devastating effect of war and its impact on the civilian population. Entitled DISPLACED, this series correlates the displacement of civilians in war-torn countries with a visual disintegration of form, evident in both the creative process and in the final painted product. In each painting, the chaos of cultural disintegration is symbolized by the fragmentation of the picture plane. With repeated editing, I appropriate images from journalistic sources, “blowing apart the reality” of the photograph so that the final result is distilled and disintegrated from its original context, and reduced into unpredictably flatly colored eccentric shapes further emphasizing the fragmentation of form and removal from its original source. The process of translating these manipulated images into oil paintings involves a change in scale, color and texture, portraying a seductive beauty that reflects the political "sanitization" of the horrors of war.
