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This scene reflects some of my boyhood memories on a farm in South Africa. There is urgency in the efforts of the harvesters to get as much of the... more
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This scene reflects some of my boyhood memories on a farm in South Africa. There is urgency in the efforts of the harvesters to get as much of the harvest done because there are serious rainclouds looming. The free, wild abandon of the flowers and plants in the natural is contrasted with the orderly way man plants and tries to regulate everything to the nth degree.
However, there is a cross hidden in the wheat fields to indicate a spiritual meaning. Indeed, the harvest is plenty, the labourers few and the time for harvesting is urgent (indicated by the clouds). But the cross is behind them and the blood from the cross indicates help from that direction as it spills down to the earth, behind the harvesters, to help them in their quest and to give them 'beauty for ashes.'
Some of the wheat in the left hand foreground have heard the message and is reaching out for help to the cross, but others turn their heads away and do not pay any attention.
Meyer van Rensburg paints in oils and does charcoal sketches. He has been drawing ever since he can remember, first imitating illustrations in magazines at his parents' home as a schoolboy, and then started painting in oils for his own enjoyment. Most of his paintings are concentrated around a very strong central theme. He was born in the Northern Cape, in South Africa, and spent his youth as a farmer's son, while attending school near Kimberley and later at Brits, near Pretoria. From this background emerges a love for gardening: planting, watering and cultivating seeds. This fits in well with the meaning of his first name: 'sower of seeds' and the theme is obvious in many of his paintings. His earlier paintings were more abstract and...
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Cyril Maza
Very nice, colorful painting! v
Michael Erasmus
In terms of composition I think its come a long way since your previous painting. I think this one's composition is more dynamic and leads the viewers eye around the canvas - so in that sense, you have controlled what your viewer looks at in what order, as opposed to prairie dogs that was very central and very simple. Further more, I really like what you've painted, (your subject matter,) and it has left me enquiring as to what you are saying. It left me questioning certain things, so I resorted to further reading - several hours tonight in fact, just to get more info. So in that light, you have succeeded in creating a work of art - something that engages and challenges its viewer.
Michael Erasmus
Listen, if you have ears. Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. "Opium is more profitable than wheat." US and NATO controlled Afghanistan produces 92% of the worlds opium, an amount that sky rocketed after US and NATO invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. American corpratocracy and pharmaceutical companies profit from the opium trade immensely in terms of licit prescription drugs like morphine and codeine. Refine it one step further and you get pure heroin. The drug trade funds wars and cripples rival kingdoms, (Russia blaming its immense heroin problem on US trafficking during the cold war.) Likewise, (according to Fox news) the majority of the poppy fields in Afghanistan are apparently owned by the war lords and ex taliban, (but safeguarded and protected by US and NATO???) The War lord owners use its profits to fund their holy war - known by westerners under another term - "Terrorism." American and NATO troops are assigned to safeguard and protect those poppy fields. So instead of Afghans growing wheat and feeding the hungry, they grow opium for America and the heroin trade. Simply put, for me, this painting suggests notions of opium being more profitable than wheat. I would like to say perhaps its about the replacement of poppies with wheat - but that would just be idealistic. Or perhaps its about the harvest of the earth, written in Revelation 14: 14 - 16. Ambiguously Marx' most famous statement that religion is the opium of the masses also comes to mind.