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拍品專文
The central image of this painting by Reverend William A. Blayney (1918-1985) features a foreboding figure with oversized feet on top of the globe. Around this vista of the world, didactic imagery is laid out on a lavender background. Angels, a demon and a vice, and the four horsemen of the apocalypse surround the panel, supplemented by notations of biblical passages and a not-so-subtle nod to "Hell" as written out by a horseman's rope. An early, pedagogic example of Blayney's avidly religious paintings, it articulates the push and pull of redemption and sin.
Born in Western Pennsylvania, Blayney served in the U.S. Air Corps in World War II and, following an honorable discharge, opened a garage and repair shop in Pittsburgh. In the late 1950s, Blayney underwent a profound religious conversion and felt it his mission to spread the word of God. He moved to Thomas, Oklahoma, where he began to preach and paint his religious images; in 1969 he was ordained by the Pentecostal Ministry. Blayney began to paint in 1957, around the time he was compelled to take up his religious cause. His works deal with imagery from the Bible and center around the redemptive power of God. The artist had a particular interest in the Book of Revelation. Antichrist Kingdom is an early work by Blayney, and a sort of Rosetta stone for the many paintings of Revelation he would subsequently render.
Born in Western Pennsylvania, Blayney served in the U.S. Air Corps in World War II and, following an honorable discharge, opened a garage and repair shop in Pittsburgh. In the late 1950s, Blayney underwent a profound religious conversion and felt it his mission to spread the word of God. He moved to Thomas, Oklahoma, where he began to preach and paint his religious images; in 1969 he was ordained by the Pentecostal Ministry. Blayney began to paint in 1957, around the time he was compelled to take up his religious cause. His works deal with imagery from the Bible and center around the redemptive power of God. The artist had a particular interest in the Book of Revelation. Antichrist Kingdom is an early work by Blayney, and a sort of Rosetta stone for the many paintings of Revelation he would subsequently render.