August 9, 2010
Metropolis and its heart
My new painting in the Metropolis series is called “Metropolis and its heart”.
Metropolis and its heart, acrylics on canvas; 90cm x 90cm
I have been thinking for a long time about what constitutes the heart of the big city. What could it be? The technology and the evolutionary progress and development in the education of homo sapiens? Or our nature, the fact that we are sociable, a social and collective animal? However this is inconsistent with the reality – people who live in a small village or town are more sociable and less anonymous than those who live in big molochs. Living in a big city makes us 100% nameless, more private and more secret.
Our planet, our Earth can exist without us, maybe better than with us. But what about the Metropolis? Metropolis is a human creation. Without homo sapiens there will be no Metropolis. After 100 years, maybe even less than that, the Metropolis will be trash, in ruins, a great source for fantasy art paintings and illustrations.
The Metropolis is such a big thing and the order within it is not constrained during its development to repeat the things that exist in one part in any other part. Even if we reflect that the big cities were made by and for people, some order exists in it without our knowledge. There is also a lot of order in the creation of Metropolis which we humans have put there, like a string in a maze, so that we shall not lose our way. However the living system that is Metropolis has its own order, but the brain is separated from the heart. This amazing, ill and degenerate body, also beautifully ruthless and always sleepless, can’t exist without us humans. Therefore the heart of the Metropolis is us – PEOPLE.
If you see the painting in the flesh you can spot lots of creatures inside the central part of the work, and also lots of small creatures all around the suburbs. We are the heart!
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I like the Metropolis series a lot. Those paintings are strong and full of emotions/meanings. Due to their complicated but still very subtle stucture they gain a lot while beeing seen "alive". Thats why cant wait to see this one in Dunchidock- I hope
Gosiu, don't hope. Be sure you will see Metropolis and its heart in Dunchideock, very soon. Thank you for your very short yet very deep comment.
nice work kasia this is going to be a hit series i think
Hello, I¨m one of your friends in facebook.
I like your work very much.
I agree with you, but I add that for me, Metropolis is being always running, in movement, without time. Often without time for the real important things. And with stress also.
The pulse of the city is "aceleration".
Curiously alone people is better in metropolis. We need the
noise of someone near us, though frequently we are tired of this. The communication without real communication.
Excuse me if I have mistakes, my language is spanish.
Congratulations for your work and lots of successfull!!
Ana
Thank you Ana for your comment, and your English is absolutely OK! I understood you!
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Ce sont mes amis qui m'ont fait aimer la vie. Ils me rendent meilleur à mesure que je les trouve meilleurs eux-mêmes.
Very intrigue your painting! Lovely memories!
Bonjour Kasia ,
La blessure des hommes et la plaie des villes. Elles n'existent que parceque l'âme de l'homme est blessée.
I think…….we don't have distant enough because we can hope that human can work inside is body. Human transmet at other and to other and to other but do we transmet the most important??? Other comment i like the serie. Bye
Nice work. As all of the metropolis paintings very inetersting
Nice work. As all of the metropolis paintings
Nice article, thanks. I signed to your rss feed!
Please, keep up the greet work and continue to post topics like this. I am really fan of your blog!
great painting…
Where is the next one?
I am thinking about it, busy with some sketches. It will be a surreal Metropolis, full of weirdness
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great!