ROSS WATSON: The Timelessness of the vicissitudes of Man
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.
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.
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