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Indepth Arts News: "Clay Bodvin: A Brief History of Object and Desire..." 2007-07-24 until 2007-08-10 Artful Gallery Auckland, , NZ New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Think early 1600s. Religion losing control. Threats to importance by changing manufacturing methods. New lavish abundance; unparalleled desires for luxury goods. The newly privileged, style-conscious with increasing compulsion to enhance personal, sensual pleasure through consumption. Still life paintings are status items displaying patrons' tastes, desires. Conspicuous public records of ability to acquire and consume.
Think middle 1800s. Further religious decline. Further improvements in production capabilities. More spectacular commodity consumption. Extraordinary populist rebirth of still life again. Exemplified by Matisse rendering luxurious nature of everyday things. Without being definitive in representation. This sumptuous materialism counter-balanced by Picasso’s detached, clinical interpretations.
Fast forward again. The still life reinvented, again.
View more of Clay's work at: http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/m/mediummixer/
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