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Title
: Waiting for Godot |
Details
: Oil painting on canvas, 610x508 |
Framed - size - 735X620 |
| Explanation: The title comes from Samuel Beckett's play of the same name |
This image has been used by Purush Uwaach, a regional
Indian magazine, for their annual issue - Diwali 2012 |
Print
Available at http://www.deviantart.com/print/109947/ |
| Besides
the comments below appreciation also comes from: Roxy, Australia; John Palumbo Jr, USA; Sarah, USA; Janette, Canada; Jay, USA; Ely, UK; Gyula, Hungary; C Brzydki, USA; Marta, Italy; Meral, Turkey; Gio, Georgia; Roxy Elle, Romania; Magda, Romania; Riley Rilke, Germany |
| Waiting for love is the most degrading and wasteful
occupation of all. MFK,USA, Sept 10 |
| Blue is the most hallucinating color of the spectrum for me... so I can't
view this image for as long as I would anyway, I think waiting is mostly
what life is about... it's like we continue living, because we wait for
something unexpected and surprising to happen (*reason for which some believe
- religion : either a divinity, either science, either themselves... doesn't
really matter as long as they find something. Because some people have
forgotten what they are waiting for, or maybe they don't want to remember).
What I understand from their facial expressions is that when they will
recieve what they await, they will be not satisfied by it, and they know
it.Waiting is no longer a statement of desire, but a habit, justified by
the need of justification itself. Marie, Romania, Mar 06 |
I like the weirdly slanted brick background; it give
the impression of looking down a wall from above. The figures look strangely
juxtaposed against it. Many of them seem to be floating there, separate
from the reality of the brick wall, and adding their blue coloring to that,
I feel like they may be spirits. I imagine the wait into heaven, hell,
or purgatory might be like this. Like the chinese believe that there is
bureaucracy even in the afterlife. You could never escape having to wait
in line, even when you die. I like the varying expressions on their faces, they look like a group
of cranky old men. Maybe they're still waiting to die, or are not aware
that they have died, and are still just waiting. They're not even sure
for what anymore. Anyway, nice work, it definitely got me thinking. - T.P., USA, May 05 |
I've
heard abour this play that a person waits for Godot, just that, nothing
else happens...
In your painting the persons look like ghosts... like dead people that
had been waiting forever... and they kinda get lost into that endless
wall... like they're the spirits of all the people that ever waited,
cursed to
expect for something that will never come... - Lucia Benito Zambrana, Argentina, Mar 05 |
I
love your blue people, as always.. ... and the brick work is terrific,
I think it may be a bit too blue
though, leaving little
interest, and the perspective seems a bit weird, I think I might undersatnad
why you have done it such though, it looks to me as if..where all the
paople are wating..brickwork is large..creating a "slow" feel...wheras
when you are past the people..the brickwork seems to be rushing away.
creating the idea that everything is speeding away from those who wait.
great job. - Jessica Kuffner, Canada, Mar 05 |
Your
compositions always are strange and imaginative. I use strange as a
complimet in this case. They usually serve to convey
your meaning as opposed to just being a visual consideration.
You very well showed each person to seem to be doing a different kind
of waiting, although all do look agitated.
I'm not sure I understand your POV on waiting though.
If it has any negative connotations in my mind its more of impatience
and frustration.
Here you have used such completely cold colors, that they almost seem
to have DIED waiting.
Certainly there is a sense of hoplessness, and suspension, created both
by color AND composition.
And the brick wall is apt...as in..."hit one"...no where to
go. So, just wait. |
Looking
at this makes me impatient for some reason, like I'm waiting in a really
long line. Everyone is seen in their true
element here, devoid of stimulation, left to their own devices. Very
nice portrayal of humanity, and so true!
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Wow
, very inspirational! great work on your part! - Alyssa Farlow, USA, Feb 05 |
I
like how those reds pop out from all that blue that surrounds them.
You paint so amazing people in to your paintings. - Maria Davidjuk, Finland, Feb 05 |
"we're all just bricks in the wall..." Pink
Floyd Sometimes I see them as seats ( like in a thearter ), and at other points definitely bricks. Like the old man (with the cane), he is becomeing the wall. Don't you just hate everyone in line ahead of you? I've learned to enjoy the wait, and it's very ironic how. I just bring a small sketch book (or anything handy), and i sketch other people waiting. So I love the subject matter!!You can really see a lot about a person by how this time affects them. I love drawing them, even if it's gotten me into an awkward situation or two! I wish I had gone this far with them,....I like the juxtaposition of characters... Some sit patiently and complacent, while others squish up there faces in impatience right next to them. Also, I now like the man in the uppermost left the best. His demeanor and his wrinkles/shading, was there and difference in your process with him? There's definitely a lot of detail in their faces. Personally, I like the blue... but could use some more contrast (could also just be from the photo). But then again, tinting everything blue could just be your statement... nice work... - Elise Buck, USA, April 05 |
| I love this. It feel so familiar and yet not so. - BLP,USA,Oct 05 |
hmmm. i like it...a lot |
| it exemplifies perfectly the demeaning act of waiting. Of course most
people will admit that patience is a virtue, but the very act of waiting
insinuates that our time isn't as valuable as the people we are waiting
on. Waiting for a job interview is an excellent example of the optimism
we're supposed to maintain, all the while admitting to ourselves that we're
not as important as those we wait for...or waiting in a doctor's office
it's an act of resignation. MJ,USA, May 09 |
| I love the expression on each face that I see.You always
depict facial expression so realistically. The color shading is magnificent
too! Anne White, UK, May 09 |
| waiting as a positive effect: before a symphonic concert. The artists, esp. in the UK are paid by the public. The programme of an orchestra is announced an year before. But when you go to the concert itself and see the agitation and all comes to a silence when the conductor signals... it's just unique. Here, it is interesting that the waiting process is shifted from one party to another. Musicians await payment or compensation of sorts, while the public waits for the concert to begin. Maybe there is a note of warning there, in that if the musicians are rubbish, they will not get paid well enough by their audition (sponsorships and the selling of tickets) Otherwise, I still don't understand why you find this as one of the most dehumanising processes. (compared to the obviousness of your painting - "the applicant") Waiting for a bus? for the end of life (like the painting where you portrayed an elderly lady at a balcony)? that is just a natural course of action in my opinion. Worrisome and sad, yes, dehumanising, no. RB, Romania, July 10 |
| wooohoo, I love Waiting for Godot! It's great to see some art inspired by it! Ely, UK |
| Very interesting. For me the experience of waiting
is very dependent on what is being waited for. To wait for rescue, for help or a hand-out or a doctor's appointment, are very different from time spent in line for an event of some sort, or at a grocery store when there is plenty of money in my wallet, or time spent waiting on a bus or train or car to get to your destination perhaps. Then it can become a time for observation, introspection, even rest. Kate, USA, Jan 11 |
I think this painting expresses the concept of Beckett's play perfectly. It has exactly that atmosphere of absurdity, hopelessness and uselessness as in the play. Love this artwork, it makes me want to reread the play. Also I like all blue shades of color here, when I was reading the play some years ago, I imagined the scene in blue colors for some reason. Great work! |