EPL Art Gallery Archive > Milner Art Gallery- April 2004
Milner Art Gallery- April 2004
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Theatre Foyer Gallery Julian Brezden April 1-30, 2004 Painting is a celebration of life, it may be good or bad, joyful or painful, short or long, but nevertheless that if life. The only thing we know for a fact is that there is a beginning, middle and the end. My paintings illustrate the struggles of a character who is immersed in Dementia-praecox or "little man" humour. Little man humour has been around since the start of the twentieth century, or modern age and has found its home in many artists. My main source of interest lies in the little man characters of the silent cinemas, such as: Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, and most influential, Charles Chaplin. The characteristics of little man humour spring from a general feeling of the decay of a unitary mythology, the loss of self-confidence, and the isolation of the ordinary individual in modern times. The incredible speed in which modern life moves makes the little man character's world bewildering and unreliable rather than stable; rapid changes constantly threaten their values and the environment, which often seems overwhelming. As a result, their tone is often anxious, or neurotic; thus they retreat into "inner spaces" or fantasy worlds of impossible dreams and self-denigrating nightmares. |
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