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Without Title (Sperm Whale 8)
Category: RE-act
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Title:
Without Title (Sperm Whale 8)
Without Title (Sperm Whale 8)
Author:
Barnabas Jacob Herrmann
Barnabas Jacob Herrmann
Category:
RE-act
RE-act
Description:
The Painting i want to hand in is part of a larger series of paintings, all of wich are depicting sperm whales (for further information see my homepage). By painting sperm whales i try to establish a artistic attitidude wich aims at some archetypical way for human beings to understand the world: While humankind is itself part of nature and evolution, humans have failed to realize this fact and seen themselve as part of a different sphere. But this is only partially correct and throughout history, human societies have communicated with animals in one way or another. Yet the treating of animals by humans covers the full range between brutal explotation and religious worshipping. This range in its full immensity can nowhere be better observed tahn in the case of the whale: From a mythological sea-monster, that everyone was but afraid of, to a mere source of monetary profit in the whaling fishery of the 19th and 20th century, and from there to a symbol of ecological awareness. It is obvious that whales have been a screen for very different ways of human projection. Yet latest scientific discoveries pint out, that we may have missed improtant facts about whales for a long time. Scieneits nowadays see whales as highly intelligent beings with elaborated social structures even language-like communication systems - abilities whic where for a long time strictly connected to the human sphere. When painting whales, the form of the animal becomes for me the visible image of all that humans can see, but never totally understand. We may look at whales and even identify with them, kill them, film them or play with them, but we will never understand their specific conciousness. Yet this is not the end of the story. By maritime pollution (which whales are especially threatened by) we might soon extinguish all the mysteries of thoses unknown worlds the oceans contain. The painted whale thus becomes a reminding symbol, that humans should recognize, that there are beings in this world to be preserved, or otherwise it will loose its richness. Thus I mean to rise public attention to pollution and use of plastic, by hinting at the fate of whales as a representation for the multitude of maritime life.
The Painting i want to hand in is part of a larger series of paintings, all of wich are depicting sperm whales (for further information see my homepage). By painting sperm whales i try to establish a artistic attitidude wich aims at some archetypical way for human beings to understand the world: While humankind is itself part of nature and evolution, humans have failed to realize this fact and seen themselve as part of a different sphere. But this is only partially correct and throughout history, human societies have communicated with animals in one way or another. Yet the treating of animals by humans covers the full range between brutal explotation and religious worshipping. This range in its full immensity can nowhere be better observed tahn in the case of the whale: From a mythological sea-monster, that everyone was but afraid of, to a mere source of monetary profit in the whaling fishery of the 19th and 20th century, and from there to a symbol of ecological awareness. It is obvious that whales have been a screen for very different ways of human projection. Yet latest scientific discoveries pint out, that we may have missed improtant facts about whales for a long time. Scieneits nowadays see whales as highly intelligent beings with elaborated social structures even language-like communication systems - abilities whic where for a long time strictly connected to the human sphere. When painting whales, the form of the animal becomes for me the visible image of all that humans can see, but never totally understand. We may look at whales and even identify with them, kill them, film them or play with them, but we will never understand their specific conciousness. Yet this is not the end of the story. By maritime pollution (which whales are especially threatened by) we might soon extinguish all the mysteries of thoses unknown worlds the oceans contain. The painted whale thus becomes a reminding symbol, that humans should recognize, that there are beings in this world to be preserved, or otherwise it will loose its richness. Thus I mean to rise public attention to pollution and use of plastic, by hinting at the fate of whales as a representation for the multitude of maritime life.
Description:
The Painting i want to hand in is part of a larger series of paintings, all of wich are depicting sperm whales (for further information see my homepage). By painting sperm whales i try to establish a artistic attitidude wich aims at some archetypical way for human beings to understand the world: While humankind is itself part of nature and evolution, humans have failed to realize this fact and seen themselve as part of a different sphere. But this is only partially correct and throughout history, human societies have communicated with animals in one way or another. Yet the treating of animals by humans covers the full range between brutal explotation and religious worshipping. This range in its full immensity can nowhere be better observed tahn in the case of the whale: From a mythological sea-monster, that everyone was but afraid of, to a mere source of monetary profit in the whaling fishery of the 19th and 20th century, and from there to a symbol of ecological awareness. It is obvious that whales have been a screen for very different ways of human projection. Yet latest scientific discoveries pint out, that we may have missed improtant facts about whales for a long time. Scieneits nowadays see whales as highly intelligent beings with elaborated social structures even language-like communication systems - abilities whic where for a long time strictly connected to the human sphere. When painting whales, the form of the animal becomes for me the visible image of all that humans can see, but never totally understand. We may look at whales and even identify with them, kill them, film them or play with them, but we will never understand their specific conciousness. Yet this is not the end of the story. By maritime pollution (which whales are especially threatened by) we might soon extinguish all the mysteries of thoses unknown worlds the oceans contain. The painted whale thus becomes a reminding symbol, that humans should recognize, that there are beings in this world to be preserved, or otherwise it will loose its richness. Thus I mean to rise public attention to pollution and use of plastic, by hinting at the fate of whales as a representation for the multitude of maritime life.
The Painting i want to hand in is part of a larger series of paintings, all of wich are depicting sperm whales (for further information see my homepage). By painting sperm whales i try to establish a artistic attitidude wich aims at some archetypical way for human beings to understand the world: While humankind is itself part of nature and evolution, humans have failed to realize this fact and seen themselve as part of a different sphere. But this is only partially correct and throughout history, human societies have communicated with animals in one way or another. Yet the treating of animals by humans covers the full range between brutal explotation and religious worshipping. This range in its full immensity can nowhere be better observed tahn in the case of the whale: From a mythological sea-monster, that everyone was but afraid of, to a mere source of monetary profit in the whaling fishery of the 19th and 20th century, and from there to a symbol of ecological awareness. It is obvious that whales have been a screen for very different ways of human projection. Yet latest scientific discoveries pint out, that we may have missed improtant facts about whales for a long time. Scieneits nowadays see whales as highly intelligent beings with elaborated social structures even language-like communication systems - abilities whic where for a long time strictly connected to the human sphere. When painting whales, the form of the animal becomes for me the visible image of all that humans can see, but never totally understand. We may look at whales and even identify with them, kill them, film them or play with them, but we will never understand their specific conciousness. Yet this is not the end of the story. By maritime pollution (which whales are especially threatened by) we might soon extinguish all the mysteries of thoses unknown worlds the oceans contain. The painted whale thus becomes a reminding symbol, that humans should recognize, that there are beings in this world to be preserved, or otherwise it will loose its richness. Thus I mean to rise public attention to pollution and use of plastic, by hinting at the fate of whales as a representation for the multitude of maritime life.
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