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MONUMENT TO THE UNBORN WAR HERO
acrylic on canvas, 34" x 40", 1975
One painting that seems to summarize Rapp’s attitude is his MONUMENT TO THE UNBORN WARHERO. A large painting which includes scenes of brutality; tyranny; the soldier in various historical periods; images of Hitler; human sculls; alarming pictures of wolves; warplanes overhead and a very bold nude female figure giving birth to what appears to be a crucified figure of man. It is his visual summary of the consequences of war. Rapp is an accomplished artist, and like so many European artists who have settled in Canada, he has a strong command of modern surrealist imagery. Excerpt from the critique by J. Brooks Joyner, Editor Visual Arts, The Albertan, Saturday, May 29th, 1976
Interesting update (July 13th 2009) - to date, this painting had over 40.000 (fourty thousand!) views on my FAA website fineartamerica.com/featured/mo… - roughly 10 times more than my next most viewed work. Other than I had it on display at the Saachi Gallery Showdown (and placed in the top 50 several times), I cannot account for that many views (compared with my other work). Seems it gets on average 1500 hits per week. Is it the keywords, or does google really love this so much it ranks it high when searching for "war hero monuments" ?
MONUMENT TO THE UNBORN WAR HERO
acrylic on canvas, 34" x 40", 1975
One painting that seems to summarize Rapp’s attitude is his MONUMENT TO THE UNBORN WARHERO. A large painting which includes scenes of brutality; tyranny; the soldier in various historical periods; images of Hitler; human sculls; alarming pictures of wolves; warplanes overhead and a very bold nude female figure giving birth to what appears to be a crucified figure of man. It is his visual summary of the consequences of war. Rapp is an accomplished artist, and like so many European artists who have settled in Canada, he has a strong command of modern surrealist imagery. Excerpt from the critique by J. Brooks Joyner, Editor Visual Arts, The Albertan, Saturday, May 29th, 1976
Interesting update (July 13th 2009) - to date, this painting had over 40.000 (fourty thousand!) views on my FAA website fineartamerica.com/featured/mo… - roughly 10 times more than my next most viewed work. Other than I had it on display at the Saachi Gallery Showdown (and placed in the top 50 several times), I cannot account for that many views (compared with my other work). Seems it gets on average 1500 hits per week. Is it the keywords, or does google really love this so much it ranks it high when searching for "war hero monuments" ?
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so powerful... fantastically done!