The Reign of Error

gouache, watercolour on Buetten, (wip)

Work in Progress: The Reader:

 Robespierre, Fouche, Marie Antoinette, The Romantic Rebellion.....

Ingres, (Venus Andromede), Napoleon and the Dauphin.....

the Reign of Terror and the Revolution

or

a Book of Revelations on a Reign of Error

(liberte, egalite, paternite......)

Reading  on the French Revolution brings to mind the words of P. Krugman about history and us in it:

"Simply raising questions about the orthodoxies of the moment leads to excommunication, from which there is no coming back.

So the only experts left standing, are those who made all the 'approved mistakes'.

Its a fraternity of failure, men and women united by a history of getting everything wrong, and refusing to admit it"

Pampoenkop, 2015, oil on board

Genetically modified farmer

(pampoenkop)

oil on board, 110 x 80 cm

2015

Eris, 2015, 80 x 60 cm , oil on board

Eris

(Discordia) sister to Ares

oil tempera on board

ca 80 x 60 cm, 2015