CattleLust

These are some composites I produced for a series I'm calling Cattlelust. As one can see from the previous post I was working with a bunch of livestock paintings from the mid 19th century.

I really admire them for a number of reasons:

*I like the physical exaggeration of the animals and how solid and corpulent they seem.

*There is something really obvious in all of these paintings about what the artist was trying

to do that would never have been appropriate at the time if he/she were painting people

or landscapes. Something about the connection between paint and meat, I think.

*Having a huge body of images that track closely to a formula gives one the opportunity

to say things concerning ideas of totality, history, identity, etc.