National Gallery Exhibition: "the artist's feeling is His law" - Caspar David Friedrich , 2022
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This work is an expression of my disdain and distaste for romanticist artwork and artists as expressed through the destruction of an art gallery. The work is a display of physical destruction with a metaphorical meaning, representing the removal and subversion of classical artistry and the deification of the natural world, with a specific contempt for the ideological “framing” of nature. My initial want to create my own paintings developed into the use of actual historical oil paintings, and their total destruction a response to the sustained focus on preservation and idolisation of a world and time period which I fundamentally disagree with.

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