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AGAC 2024 1st Place Winner - Sebastiaan Theart - Brandewyn Brille (Brandy Goggles)
AGAC 2024 1st Place Winner - Sebastiaan Theart - Brandewyn Brille (Brandy Goggles)
| Artist Name: | Sebastiaan Theart |
| Title: | Brandewyn Brille (Brandy Goggles) |
| Size: | 940.00mm x 785.00mm |
| Medium | Oil paint on stretched canvas Plexi-glass and sleeper wood sculpture |
| Framed: | Painting - Framed |
| Price: |
R36,000 Prints of this painting will be available with a complimentary custom 3D miniature glasses sculpture. |
| Artist Bio: |
I was born in Walvisbay in 1988. Most of my young life, I grew up on a rural farm on the edge of the Namibian Caprivi border, in a town called Rundu. Like most artists, I have always been creative since I could remember. Drawing from the old Tarzan books or the Cartoons I was familiar with. I finished my high school in Paarl Boys High in 2007. This was a time when the internet wasn’t so prominent in our daily lives as it is today. My options in the creative careers were limited, and I furthered my studies at Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography. It was only when I discovered international art academies that I realised that I can make a career out of picture making. I started my full-time career as an artist in 2015. I have always been inspired by the past masters, and I continued to research and teach myself the principals of academic art from what seems to be limited online information at the time. By vigorously copying my favorite artist to teaching myself anatomy. This was also an instinctive practice I pursued since the age of 8. It just seemed that I could always understand the language of picture making better than anything else. Today my work is celebrated by national and international art collectors. I have been interviewed by several journalists and appeared on KYKNET in 2020. My style has evolved from academic approaches to more of an impressionistic approach, I am fascinated by the artist who created stories through picture making in Comic books, Tarzan and the classic Barbarian novels. |
| Inspiration | My artwork consists of two parts. An oil painting and a plexiglass sculpture. Inspired by Rembrandt’s self-portrait and Dali’s Persistence of Memory. I have battled between the two approaches as a professional artist where one side of me enjoys the bravura brushstrokes of Rembrandt, and the other the more promiscuous side of bohemian culture. In this work I explore the Afrikaner tribe. The celebrated ‘’Bring-&-Braai’’ social gathering, where boundries are pushed with exquisite cuisine, perfectly paired with fermented Brandy and Coke. When observed closely, the tribe often devide into two groups. On one side the more feminine of the species is prepping the elementary ingredients, complimented with light gossip. The other side the more masculine of the species doing the laborious work of Flip-and-Sip. A double vision later occurs, where one is forced to close one eye to prevent seeing two of the same subject. This trans-like state seem to make unrealistic goals seem effortless as confidence grows, and in some cases, turning warthogs into beautifully groomed ponies. This effect is called ‘Brandewyn-Brille’ or "Brandy-Goggles''. When this occurs, the social event is deemed successful, and the feminine species is responsible for guiding the rest of the tribe to their respective locations. In this painting, the double vision effect is observed, where Rembrandt and I awkwardly glance over at Dali, the 3rd wheel. One could say that the viewer of the artwork is actively participating in this social event as a third wheel while looking through the sculpture, a Priority Wheel, which just so happens to always land on Braai. |
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