ROSS WATSON: The Timelessness of the vicissitudes of Man

ROSS WATSON: The Timelessness of the vicissitudes of Man

Untitled, 2010. Oil / Wood The diver and Olympic gold medalist Matthew Mitcham is portrayed dramatically attached to a sail on a oceado tempestusoso suspended. Watson was inspired by the solitary nature of many sports and the intense pressure to succeed and win against all odds. Here the artist invites us to think about what might happen after a success or a defeat, or anxiety or loneliness of man faced with the conflict of winning or losing a competition. Ross Watson has referred to a work of Willem van de Velde, who was the undisputed master of marine paint at that time.

In art as in life there is nothing new, if we see and study the history of painting are always painting the same, and there lies the importance of creativity of the artist to show what differences has been done and seen, inventing or solving the above from a new work of art, developing another reading or another conception of previous work and perhaps surpassing the previous or original masterpiece.

Untitled. 2010. Oil / Wood. The Australian artist Ross Watson in this work shows a Francois Sagat, gay pornstar, being crucified as for over 400 years Caravaggio did with his "Crucifixion of St. Peter." In this beautiful painting Watson Vatican protest against homophobia and the Catholic Church. In Caravaggio's masterpiece is the apostle Peter, the one on which Jesus Christ built his church, "which is sacrificed, but now the martyr is a French porn star who has not hesitated to participate in campaigns for the prevention of HIV / AIDS, teaching condom use. San Pedro and helped "save lives with virt to Catholicism, Francois Sagat saves lives teaching the youth of today in the sexual prophylaxis and condom use.

Ross Watson is a painter who spent most of his work or pictorial work in collecting famous paintings of the past and update it to fit the modern man, the thinking and lifestyles of these new and modern times. Watson deftly places consecrated young athletes, dancers, celebrities, porn stars and other examples of pop culture today in areas of the past, painting or work of art that have marked milestone in the history of art and so on humanity and that are already part of the collective unconscious. Ross Watson takes the look of painters such as Bronzino enshrined, Jacques-Louis David, Bacon, Caravaggio or Rodchenko, place your beautiful models and produces a new work from the heritage of these teachers, but its importance is that from this union tells or shows a new story or other postmodernist reading of reality.

Untitled. 2004. Oil / Canvas. This time Watson takes the Rugby player Brodie Holland to subtly expose the pride of the athletes of today. The model and athlete is brought to the table of Jacques-Louis David "The Oath of the Horatii" where the Roman soldiers swear to fulfill their duties above any personal feelings.

In this transmutation of the flesh or the time we see guys like Watson or models travel to the past or that happened again today, bringing the man to crash despite its scientific and technological advances primarily remains the same: humanity continues to suffer the same fears and uncertainties, the same tastes, the same ghosts, the same aberration, the same hobbies.

Untitled. 2009. Oil / Canvas. The dancer Marco Da Silva is the main image in this picture where the bottom is a Caravagio "The Musicians" where young artists mannered positions frame the beauty gay male pop artist, perhaps highlighting the existence of homosexuality as a common fact, current and persistent and art and the history of mankind.

In the dramatic and beautiful pictures of young people of our pop culture are exposed by Watson for the most physical beauty but deep down they come to be the protagonists of that humanity has not changed anything, the man who despite centuries the centuries of "progress" is still a primate with intelligence and reason, but all of which continue rowing in the same murky waters of the past and ourselves every day more muddied.