Posts Tagged ‘painting’

Stanza Oil on Canvas

March 22nd, 2012

A whole series of Stanza Oil on Canvas are  ready for exhbition. They are inspired by  cities but are about the scars in the environment.

The city is everywhere, with lifeless design spreading upwards and forming a conundrum of physical objects in space. A city form is a conundrum of physical objects in space. Cities become “insect colonies”, spreading upwards with giant towers looming over vacant lots, and empty spaces.

OIl On Canvas By Stanza. Virus

OIl On Canvas By Stanza. Virus

Giant cities paint a gloomy picture, of mass urban sprawl; the megalopolis is spreading upwards and everywhere to house a population of which 70 – 80% now lives in cites worldwide.

OIl On Canvas By Stanza. Virus

OIl On Canvas By Stanza. Virus 2

Beautiful Maps: Stanza Paintings 1988

June 18th, 2010
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Stanza painting. Oil On Canvas. 1988. In Private Collection.

Artwork  by Stanza. 1988

This is a map I painted in 1988 now in a private collection.  One of a series of beautiful maps.  Oil on canvas.  Thought I  would post it up as I am off to the British  Library maps exhibition.  Maps, as this show makes plain, are art works. Maps as works of art, propaganda pieces, expressions of local pride, tools of indoctrination…

Magnificent Maps brings together 80 of the largest, most impressive and beautiful maps ever made, from 200 AD to the present day. http://www.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/


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