"World War III" 3 - 8x12in. pencil, oil paint
This is a work in which explores the idea of changing the language of a historical artwork. Raphael's Apostles, depicts an overly realistic sensibility in regards of emotion. The subjects, St. John and St. Peter, are both depicted in an emotional state that fits the language of the biblical narrative of the Gospel of Matthew. Keeping this in mind, this work changes the narrative to an unknown environment in which it's normally read.
As Raphael is among the highest of prestige in the art world, and also an architect in his time. This piece is mindful of common geometrical abstractions and the alteration or distortion of depth perception. The decision to add the middle piece of Uncle Sam, made by the artist James Montgomery Flagg in 1917, was to not only create a different language between the Apostles, but to create a duality between the major time difference in art making.
