Matthew Couper on the ImageBlog

Matthew Couper on the ImageBlog
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'Pict-Evol', 2012, oil on canvas, 58" x 46", private collection, Gisborne, New Zealand.
Upcoming Exhibition: Matthew Couper: Recent Devotional Paintings. http://www.mattcouper.com/RCC.html

"...Iโ€™m interested in where things, well, symbols come from. I like to know its history. But then you're always thinking, can you trust what you are reading? It's a belief . . . a romanticized structure. A good example is the Picts. Iโ€™m supposed to be a descendant; you know, Scottish ancestry, Celtic, Scythian and all that. I used pictures I found when I was in Scotland โ€“ these classical nude figures covered in blue woad designs. This is, of course, total speculation; there was no documentation of what they looked like, only sparse historical tidbits in translated texts. I really like thatโ€ฆ" the artist interviewed by City Gallery art curator Aaron Lister in 2007

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