THE RISE OF ABIMELEK (THE MURDER OF THE SEVENTY) by Kevin Rolly
Mixed media by Kevin Rolly For Sale
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Title: THE RISE OF ABIMELEK (THE MURDER OF THE SEVENTY)
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Artist: Kevin Rolly
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Category: Mixed media
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Medium: photography, acrylic, oil paint
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Size (inches): 36x48
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Year: 2013
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Framed?: Unframed
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Shipping from: United States
Price: $6000
Artwork description
When brother turn against brother a society has reached a cultural nadir…
And so it was when Abimelek, the bastard son of Gideon, rose to claim power over Israel.
Gideon had seventy sons. Abimelek was his bastard child to a concubine. He went to the town of Shechem saying,
“Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal reign over you, or that one reign over you?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and bone.”
The leaders of Shechem gave in and gave him money to hire his murderous thugs.
And on a single day, he murdered all seventy of his brothers, on a single stone, in public, and became their ruler.
Weeks were spent making the costumes and props.
Weapons were made of bones.
They needed to look at horrifying as possible.
We staged the bloody scene in a long afternoon at our warehouse, BIG ART LABS, in downtown Los Angeles. The images were printed traditionally in the darkroom and adhered to a custom made panel before the final “Oilgraph” technique was applied. It’s a term I coined for the technique which creates a hybrid of traditional film photography, oil paint and other media.
Painted in live performance at THEORY LABS – LOS ANGELES
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