luke Chueh Luke Chueh
The Saint Chuehing over Martydom 16 x 20 inches Acrylic and ink on wood panel £3,700 “My reasoning for choosing Andrea Mantegna’s “Saint Sebastian” as my subject to remix and reinterpretation is rooted mostly in the raw brutality in the painting itself. Like Goya’s “Saturn Devours His Son”, the violence and gore of Mantegna’s “St. Sebastian” truly caught my eye when I was introduced to it in my art history classes. And it was basically then, that I decided if I had the good fortune of becoming an artist, I wanted to create stunningly violent paintings such these. But asides for the violence, the image of Saint Sebastian’s arrow riddled body has an incredibly popular image, and is undeniably part of western societies visual lexicon. It has even popped up in music videos (such as R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion”). and has been remixed and reinterpreted through the filter of popular culture. One of the most popular reinterpretation being a photograph of Muhammad Ali, riddled with arrows for a cover of Esquire Magazine.”
Matthew Bone
Garden of Eden by Jan Breughel and Peter Paul Reuben. 1615
“I recreated Jan Breughel and Peter Paul Reuben’s “Garden of Eden.” They were the best painters of their time, working together at the peak of their careers and coming together to create one of the most wonderfully lush pieces of all time!”
Matthew Bone Malleable 14.5 x 20.5 inches Oil on wood £1850.00