Touching Under The Stars

Artwork: #103 of 137 by Jason Torgerson

Touching Under The Stars Painting - Touching Under The Stars Fine Art Print - Jason Torgerson

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Touching Under The Stars

Artist:

Jason Torgerson

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Painting - Acrylic On Board

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Ideal Relationships

This series of paintings has become an exploration of human relationships. They visually explore the beauty, imposed order, assumptions and mythos attached to the various interpersonal relationships that people believe in, form and maintain. At the same time, they visually explore the chaotic randomness that exists within these real relationships. In every culture there are particular myths and archetypes that have grown up surrounding the various ideas of "ideal" relationships, whether it be the mother and child relationship as embodied by the "Holy Mother", the loving protecting father and child relationship in which the basis of "God" is formed, the idyllic romantic relationships shown in the "happily ever after" or "Princess and Prince Charming" of fairy tales, the friend who "sticks closer than a brother" or sister, and so on and so forth. With every type of relationship that human beings have, there has grown a myth or ideal attached to it somewhere within our collective minds.
Consider the stories, plays, and movies that have been written and produced over the centuries. The "buddy" movies, for instance, are based on idealized "true" friends who would sacrifice everything for each other, even their own lives. It appears in the Illiad with the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, and in many other stories whether ancient, modern, and/or religious. Is there truly any difference between the Riggs and Murtaugh relationship in the Lethal Weapon movies and the relationship between David and Jonathan in the Old Testament? Nearly every human being on the planet wishes, hopes, and dreams for a "true" friendship with someone whom they can entrust with their lives and the lives of those precious to them. Thus, it is no wonder that such relationships get idealized and become archetypal.
The romantic relationships seem to be the heaviest laden with idealizations, definitely more so than the other types. The only other relationships that have come close to such widespread and tightly held beliefs and idealizations are those between parent and child. Elements of The Romance or Love story are so widespread that real life romantic relationships sometimes suffer under the weight of such idyllic notions, such as "the one", "meant to be", "Prince Charming" and "happily ever after". The fact that all real relationships require work, devotion and commitment, and are messy, chaotic, growing things, rarely enters into the mind when one is thinking about "LOVE". Ponder the popular views of romantic love in modern day media: They have hardly changed for millennia. For this very reason, Romeo and Juliet, which is a variation on the old Babylonian myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, is still a viable thematic structure for many movies and plays. One only need watch the advertisements for the many online dating sites to see that the old idyllic notions of love and romance are still as pervasive as ever.
All of this is not to say that there are no negative stereotypes and archetypes in the human relationship mythos. The "wicked step mother" and "ungrateful son" still make very moving and profound protagonists in our stories. However, my series of paintings is more concerned with exploring the idyllic and idealized natures of our human relationships.

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