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To the Victor go the Spoils Painting
Australia
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 70.9 W x 39.4 H x 1.2 D in
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About The Artwork
Three months after the fall of the Berlin Wall I stood before this, the Soviet war memorial in Berlin’s Tiergarten, watching the goose-stepping Soviet soldiers play out the final act of the Cold War pantomime. Built (according to the urban myth from the rubble of the Reichstag) just months after the end of WWII in the western part of Berlin; a tiny pocket of the east in a walled west that was in turn encircled by the fortified east, for most of its existence the monument was protected by soldiers, a cosseted enclave within and enclave acting as a microcosm of the charade being writ large by the allied and soviet powers in the world’s most fraught, and pointless, rivalry. Now the soldiers are long gone and where they once marched, weeds grow. Somehow, it seems appropriate.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:70.9 W x 39.4 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Australia.
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Matthew was featured in BRW as one of Australia's top 50 artists. In the past few years he's won, or been a finalist for, more than 70 major national art awards. He's had 14 solo and 80 group shows. He's painted all his life but allowed himself to be distracted by other careers, working variously as a lecturer, art-director, photographer & writer. His first novel was short-listed for the Vogel Literary Award. He's lived in Australia, the UK, Portugal & Malaysia, and once camped for several months beneath a grand piano. He spent nights under stars in India, under-ground in Bolivia, under surveillance in Burma and under-nourished in London. His scariest moment was having machine-gun shoved in his face during Nepalese anti-monarchy riots, although crashing a para-glider into a forest was also something of a highlight.
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