Key: #49
Title: Battle Cry
Number of Skins: 3
Other titles: “Don’t Look Back”, “Calling the Troops to Battle”, “Call to Battle”, “Summoning the Troops to Battle, (Again)”
Signature: “DGR ’13” (bottom right), originally “d.rosen ’08” on first skin
Dates of creation: July 2008 – January 2014
Places of creation: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and The Memeway
Type of work: Painting
Medium: Acrylic, Gouache and Resin on Bristol Board
Media/material note: “acrylic, metals, board, resins…”
Dimensions: 15″x12″, originally 14″x11″ on first skin
Artist’s description note: Though originally called “Don’t Look Back”- I am sticking with *BATTLECRY*, the title I gave it the moment it was finished. I did this during chemo- partly why it has never been offered for sale. I believe i may be the red entity riding on the “Picasso Legs” turning back to summon the troops into battle. I seem to have given myself breasts? The dark smear across chest is the cancer (if i remember correctly). I gonna need them ALL now! Soldiers of Love! I am in no shortage 🙂 Three stages- beginning in 2008 or 9 and then a year ago. Then a day ago. Time shrinking? Final Skin has that odd professor-looking character on right side. Those that attended will remember flatter color. Much nicer flow now. I remember riding those Picasso legs into town. I love how it simultaneously suggests a landscape while standing up in a 4″ deep plane – the trick is to hold it up tonally, evenly almost like a pattern while maintaining the Figurative plausibility. Dude in bow-tie is a trip. Final touches – i caught a missing tone and now it feels almost aquatic. “Calling the Troops to Battle”- 2013: Original Skin- done in 2008- when i needed them the firstime. Do we know each other? Aging paradigms don’t go down easy.
Additional note: The origin of the title “Battle Cry” may be connected to the song “Afyonkarahisar Battle Cry“.
Total number of pictures: 286
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