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Activist Artist - Chris Holden
" Art Considered Ahead of its Time"
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Humanity faces some very serious issues. Essentially my art attempts to engage with the truth about these
" A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art" - Pail Cezanne
" In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell
" OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE BECOME SILENT ABOUT THINGS THAT MATTER" Martin Luther King, Jr.
" Art is not what you see, but what you make others see" - Edgar Degas
"Art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable" - Banksy
-"Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war against brutality & darkness"
-Pablo Picasso
-"Insuring a vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation...the artist must also sail against the wind of his time, not a popular role" - President John F Kennedy.
- "Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened" ---Winston Churchill.
-" To sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards of men " Ella Wheeler Wilcox
" No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth "
- Plato
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" For evil to flourish, it takes good men & women to do nothing (2012) - Collage/ drawing 23cms x 20cms
Humanity faces some very serious issues. Essentially my art attemps to engage with the truth about these.
" A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art " - Paul Cezanne
" In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act " - George Orwell.
" Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter "
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
" Art is not what you see, but what you make others see" - Edgar Degas.
" Art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable" - Banksy.
" Painting is not done to decorate apartments, it is an instrument of war against brutality & darkness" -
Pablo Picasso
" Insuring a vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation...the artist must also sail against the wind of his time, not a popular role"
- President John F Kennedy.
" Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened "
- Winston Churchill.
" No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth" -Plato.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Ride into the 21st century. (2011) Acrylic paint on canvas 120cms x 120cms .
" For evil to flourish, it takes good men & women to do nothing " Collage/drawing 23 cms x 22 cms. (2012)
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ISRAELI PIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SPEECH TO THE U.S. CONGRESS- JULY 24 2024 - Acrylic paint & collage on canvas (h) 102 cms x (w) 127 cms (2024-2025)
GAZA 2024 - Acrylic paint on canvas (h) 92 cms x (w) 122 cms (2024)
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