And in the End
And in The End
Category: Paintings
Artist: Chris Gollon
Subject: Early Thoughts
Year of Work: 2008
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 36" x 24"
Private collection. This painting is part of the series entitled 'Early Thoughts'. In preparation for his Fellowship & Residency at the Institute of Advanced Study in early 2009, Chris Gollon began six months before to explore his own general idea and early thoughts on the Fellowship's theme: 'Being Human'.
In his painting 'Apollo', Gollon started to look at the gods mankind has created, and those who like Apollo got left behind, as civilizations changed. In a similar fashion, he has painted Venus 3 times, and this painting as the end of love or life.
'And In The End' takes its title from a little 3-line refrain by Paul McCartney at the end of a Beatles album:
'And in the end
The love you make
Is equal to the love you take..'
Here Gollon has painted Venus returning to whence she came.
Chris Gollon is developing a very unique and stylized anatomy in these figures, using a large degree of abstraction, yet retaining some degree of the representational. It imbues these figures with a strange but sculptural 'essence' of Woman or humankind. This technique helped him develop a way of using figures like these to hold ideas, as he prepared for the 'Being Human' Fellowship.
