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Specifics
48 x 65 inches
Oil on Canvas
1996 - in progress
Artist: David Ehlen |
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Welcome to Surrealism Gallery 5! Terminal Intensity is inspired by potency, power, strength, fervency, insistence, passion and spirituality. The symbolism that few have insight to has slowly revealed themselves to me over the ten years I have been working on this piece.
My introduction to surrealism is an art form that allows me to extract deep meanings and subjects from the thoughts I have and put them into visual form. I think, I'm not sure, however this painting has always leaned towards the birth of a world and placing the elements inside the new world.
As you will see as you explore the progression/history of this work, it has changed. Some elements like the globe and the hand that is next to it have always been there. The yellow/gold floating shapes at the bottom that have the bubbles (or whatever they are) on them have been there for over ten years now.
Yes, I'm still working on Terminal Intensity. It has been a piece that is usually hanging in my home somewhere so when I pass it, I wonder how I will actually ever finish it or ever feel it is finished.
This work has inspired me to use the same colors and shapes into other pieces, Terminal Intensity #2, Terminal Intensity #3, It's Not the End of the World but I can See it From Here, and Creating Infinity. These paintings are extensions or studies for further development of this piece.
I don't believe that I will ever be finished with this series of work and will continue to explore the concepts and fervor of this inspired surrealism. I'm dangerously looking at the Nerve Series and may convert these pieces into this series. You'll notice when you view these paintings in the nerve series that they live along the same strain of this style and could be easily altered.
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