The universal immutability of coagulation

Posted on December 17th, 2012 by James Higham

the universal immutability of coagulation

2.3m x 1.7m, oil on canvas

[Clicking on pic takes you to an attachment page.  Double click on pic there.   Life wasn't meant to be easy.]

Painted during the artist’s violently punctuated Green Period, this piece decries the gradual disemblackening of the universality of the night sky and the soft corrosion of synapse space which highlights the essential disorder of the mind as a surrogate or proxy for the tyrannical oppression of random humanity.

The yellowing process continued to dominate the artist’s mind, as could be seen in his next work, the Marbling of the Synaptic Ocean.  An exhibition of the artist’s most celebrated works will be held at Nesbitt Galleries, 45b Golspie Avenue, Govan, Glasgow. G51 3ES5, from Friday, December 28th, 2012 until Monday, December 31st, 2012.  Tickets at the door.

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20 Responses to “The universal immutability of coagulation”

  1. Ian Hills, on December 17th, 2012 at 21:43 Said:

    This work is a stark reminder that Zionist global warming can only lead to more Republican gun crime in Syria. I beat my head and groan.


  2. James Higham, on December 17th, 2012 at 21:47 Said:

    My first critic review! My first critic review! I feel I’ve come of age as an artist.


  3. Ian Hills, on December 17th, 2012 at 21:54 Said:

    On second thoughts, it looks more like boiled seaweed topped with snot croutons.


  4. James Higham, on December 17th, 2012 at 22:02 Said:

    That’s really rather good. :)

    Actually, it’s a gravel pathway smudged at will with supernova superimposed and that bit is the actual truth.

    LOL, this is art?


  5. JD, on December 17th, 2012 at 22:03 Said:

    A sensitive and insightful review and beautifully expressed by Sir James de l’Arte-Cojones

    You will be the next Chairman of the Arts Council for sure, there can be no better candidate!


  6. Don QuiScottie, on December 17th, 2012 at 22:10 Said:

    “this piece decries the gradual disemblackening of the universality of the night sky and the soft corrosion of synapse space which highlights the essential disorder of the mind as a surrogate or proxy for the tyrannical oppression of random humanity.”

    Well, yeah – that’s just stating the obvious. A 5 year old child would tell you that :)

    But I do like the picture. Could make me think of many things


  7. Don QuiScottie, on December 17th, 2012 at 22:14 Said:

    and I think the smudging of a gravel pathway is clearly intended as metaphor for wave-particle duality, with the particulate gravel submerged within, but nonetheless emerging from the wave-like continuum that sustains it; while of course the supernovae remind us that our wavy particles were formed in stars, and to stars we shall all return…. our blogposts and all. Magnificent. 2013 Turner prize I’m sure


  8. James Higham, on December 17th, 2012 at 22:17 Said:

    I’m just overwhelmed [and won't arf use that description for the next one]. Perhaps I’ll even hold an actual exhibition in Govan eventually, the spiritual home of this art.

    Quite like the name. Now if it’s modified a little, we get Sir James Eminhirst de l’Arte-Cojones

    Chaps, we might be onto a little earner here.

    ………..

    A 5 year old child would tell you that

    Find me …….


  9. Don QuiScottie, on December 17th, 2012 at 22:26 Said:

    “Quite like the name”

    I prefer the more concise “Bollocks on Canvas”


  10. CherryPie, on December 17th, 2012 at 22:44 Said:

    “Bollocks on Canvas”

    I am trying to stop that thought from emerging into full consciousness!!


  11. Dave, on December 17th, 2012 at 22:53 Said:

    I am prepared to up my offer. I propose $17,000
    all in used mixed value notes, wrapped in brown paper.

    I am a contemporary, art critic, condemning conceptual art in general and the Turner Prize in particular.

    David Dingwall


  12. Don QuiScottie, on December 17th, 2012 at 22:54 Said:

    Steady on Cherie… And the one thing you should not do with profound conceptual art is just take it literally and naively. If you did that then the profound insight into the infinite that is Damien Hirst’s “Dead Shark” would just be, eh… a dead shark, and how ridiculous would that be?


  13. JD, on December 17th, 2012 at 23:28 Said:

    “Bollocks on Canvas”

    I think a man called Jackson has already patented that one………


  14. CherryPie, on December 17th, 2012 at 23:46 Said:

    Which leads us to this….

    http://gawker.com/5788079/artist-vomits-paint-onto-canvas-literally

    :-(

    It is rather disgusting :-/


  15. Amfortas, on December 18th, 2012 at 00:17 Said:

    A work of stunning impact.

    I am not like most here: the appreciative contributors with taste and discernment. They can ‘see’ what the modern artist is ‘communicating’. But me: I rely on the clear descriptive words to tell me just what the hell a picture is supposed to be. Otherwise I have no idea.

    So this stunning impact is like many: right between the eyes, but just missing both.


  16. Amfortas, on December 18th, 2012 at 04:03 Said:

    My vote goes to QuiScottie for opening the cat’s-box and shining light onto dark matter.


  17. James Higham, on December 18th, 2012 at 08:34 Said:

    Gentlemen – yes.

    Cherie – now is that ladylike?


  18. Chuckles, on December 18th, 2012 at 09:19 Said:

    You should be hung in the national gallery


  19. Don QuiScottie, on December 18th, 2012 at 13:21 Said:

    “You should be hung in the national gallery”

    Ah…. Now that might draw a crowd Chuckles


  20. James Higham, on December 18th, 2012 at 14:44 Said:

    Sisal rope?


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