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Painter Chris Trueman, from Claremont, California, has created a unique painting by using 200,000 dead ants instead of paint.
The painting Chris calls “Self Portrait With a Gun” actually features his younger brother, dressed as a cowboy, holding his dad’s rifle. From afar this unusual artwork looks more like an old yellowed photo, but as you approach it, you realize it’s actually something completely different – a painting made of ants.
To the artist, this bizarre ant painting represents how humans learn about things abstractly, only to have their impressions changed as they get closer to them. But actually completing his masterpiece wasn’t the simplest task, mostly because he hated killing the creatures he perceives to be ” right on the line of what I consider intelligent life.” When he first began the project, he decided to catch the ants himself, but the ants in San Francisco, where he was living at the time, were too small. So he decided to order them online, from a guy who was breeding and selling them as food for lizards.
First he ordered just 1,000 ants, because he didn’t know how many he would need for the right density, but then he started ordering 40,000. They came in peanut-butter jars, and seeing them moving around in there, it was hard for Chris to make a decision. He couldn’t release them, because they weren’t native to that area, and they could start biting people. So he decided to kill the ants himself. It wasn’t easy, and he even took a 1-year-break, but decided to complete his ant masterpiece, because he didn’t want the first batch to have died in vain.
Some of the ants dried up and were torn to pieces, so Chris Trueman used them in the large parts of the painting, where details weren’t important, saving the full-sized ants for the detailed parts. he would handle them with tweezers, placing them on the Plexiglass canvas and coat them in a painting resin called galkyd.
The painting Chris calls “Self Portrait With a Gun” actually features his younger brother, dressed as a cowboy, holding his dad’s rifle. From afar this unusual artwork looks more like an old yellowed photo, but as you approach it, you realize it’s actually something completely different – a painting made of ants.
To the artist, this bizarre ant painting represents how humans learn about things abstractly, only to have their impressions changed as they get closer to them. But actually completing his masterpiece wasn’t the simplest task, mostly because he hated killing the creatures he perceives to be ” right on the line of what I consider intelligent life.” When he first began the project, he decided to catch the ants himself, but the ants in San Francisco, where he was living at the time, were too small. So he decided to order them online, from a guy who was breeding and selling them as food for lizards.
First he ordered just 1,000 ants, because he didn’t know how many he would need for the right density, but then he started ordering 40,000. They came in peanut-butter jars, and seeing them moving around in there, it was hard for Chris to make a decision. He couldn’t release them, because they weren’t native to that area, and they could start biting people. So he decided to kill the ants himself. It wasn’t easy, and he even took a 1-year-break, but decided to complete his ant masterpiece, because he didn’t want the first batch to have died in vain.
Some of the ants dried up and were torn to pieces, so Chris Trueman used them in the large parts of the painting, where details weren’t important, saving the full-sized ants for the detailed parts. he would handle them with tweezers, placing them on the Plexiglass canvas and coat them in a painting resin called galkyd.
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| Seniman Chris Trueman, dari Claremont, California, telah menciptakan sebuah lukisan yang unik dengan menggunakan 200.000 semut mati daripada menggunakan cat. Lukisan Chris disebut "Self Portrait With Gun" sebenarnya adalah gambar adiknya, berpakaian sebagai seorang koboi, memegang senapan ayahnya. Dari kejauhan karya seni yang tidak biasa ini lebih mirip sebuah foto menguning tua, tetapi jika Anda mendekat, Anda menyadari itu sebenarnya sesuatu yang sama sekali berbeda. sebuah lukisan yang terbuat dari semut. Untuk seniman, lukisan semut aneh ini merupakan bagaimana manusia belajar tentang hal-hal abstrak, hanya untuk mempunyai kesan mereka berubah karena mereka lebih dekat dengan mereka. Tapi benar-benar menyelesaikan karyanya bukan tugas sederhana, terutama karena ia membenci membunuh makhluk hidup yang "benar pada garis dari apa yang saya anggap kehidupan cerdas" Ketika pertama kali memulai proyek tersebut, Ia memutuskan untuk menangkap semut sendiri , tapi semut di San Francisco, di mana dia tinggal saat itu, terlalu kecil. Jadi, dia memutuskan untuk memesan secara online, dari seorang pria yang berkembang biak dan menjual mereka sebagai makanan untuk kadal. Pertama-tama ia memesan hanya 1.000 semut, karena ia tidak tahu berapa banyak dia akan perlu untuk kepadatan yang tepat, tapi kemudian ia mulai memesan 40.000 semut. Mereka datang dalam stoples selai kacang, dan melihat mereka mondar-mandir di sana, sulit bagi Chris untuk membuat keputusan. Dia tidak bisa membebaskan mereka, karena mereka tidak cocok di daerah itu, dan mereka bisa mulai menggigit orang. Jadi, dia memutuskan untuk membunuh semut sendiri. Memang tidak mudah, dan ia bahkan mengambil 1-tahun istirahat, tapi memutuskan untuk menyelesaikan karya semutnya, karena dia tidak ingin karya pertamanya gagal sia-sia. Beberapa semut kering dan terpotong-potong, sehingga Chris Trueman menggunakan mereka dalam sebagian besar lukisan, di mana rincian tidak penting, menyimpan semut berukuran penuh untuk bagian-bagian rinci. ia akan menangani mereka dengan pinset, menempatkan mereka pada kanvas Plexiglass dan mantel mereka dalam lukisan yang disebut resin galkyd. |
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