Arnaud Malan, Artist

2018, Woman wearing a hat, oil on canvas, priv. coll

Labels: portrait

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"

Labels: forensic studies, landscape, portrait

Pampoenkop, 2015, oil on board

Genetically modified farmer

(pampoenkop)

oil on board, 110 x 80 cm

2015

Labels: portrait

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

Eris

(Discordia) sister to Ares

oil tempera on board

ca 80 x 60 cm, 2015

Labels: oil on board, portrait

RSA Flag

South African Flag

oil on paperboard, 80x108cm

sowing the seeds of corruption

Watercolour, gouache ink on Hahnemuehle

80x108cm

Labels: flag, portrait

Traffic, Petrodollar ,Death on Toll Road N1 , 2015

Petrodollar Portrait

acryl on board, 03. 2015

turn around strategists redirecting black gold
into the sanctions of traffic and flow or no-go
@ 1.00$ or .50 cents/l. (weather permitting)

."..give us our daily oil, oh Lord and Sheik"

a global circus with no yield or stop
the signs keep moving ,the frontline dances two-step a dime
forward and backward, uptown downtown,right wing
left wing, in and out and roundabout

black gold with a shot of blood for Cold Wars and Hot Wars,
--'roll out the barrels
roll out the barrels of guns.

U-Turn on Death Toll Road N1

YOUR TURN
U-TURN
- its your turn too.

Minister in the Presidency C. Chabane and 2 bodyguards

killed in a collision on the N1 caused by a drunken driver

attempting an illegal turn around strategy for his illicit truck

under cover of night

.

. 17. 03. 2015

wer rast so schnell

durch Nachtschwarz wie blind

es sind zwei Leibwachen und ihr Prinz......

von 200 Pferdestaerken gebruell das Ettappenziel eiliger naht und

200 Stundenkilometer frueher am Ziel morgen als hier um Mitternacht:

das Bummheil ist dada . ob Unfall, ob Schicksal

in diesem Fall mit grossem trara und Krawall . Im nirgendwo, da oder da,

ungeplant und unvorschriftsmaessig , -(es war Nacht) -

und blind trifft die Buschjustiz ein Zufalls -Ziel

der Missbrauch regelwidriger Privilegien -

beendet , da

-da regelwidrig der beidseitige Missbrauch der Regeln die Regel war-, dasein.

Klar.

Unter Ausschluss der Oeffentlichkeit

kracht Blech da auf Stahl,

zerfleischen Schreie aus Fleisch den Koerper ,

wird Metall kopflos

und rollen Reifen fassungslos ins Grab.

bei Polokwane.

traffic jam for brunch

one for the road

Labels: acrylic on board, portrait, traffic

Oom Koffie en Tant Koekie by Kakaenka, 2015

Oom Koffie en Tannie Koekie by Kakaenka, 2015

opgedra met Gelukwense aan die Feeskommittee , borge en deelnemers aan die jaarlikse

Klein Karroo Kuns- Kultuur- Koffie -Koek- Konsumente en Kunstenaar Kleur -Konsolidasie-Keurings-en-Konstruksie -Kommittee vir Kommunikatiewe Korrupsie van kultiverende -Kernbelange, Klugte, kak en K-woord Klagtes

(geen K-woord is in hierdie teks gebruik of mishandel nie. Dank ook aan aan Steve Hofmeyer en Sunette Bridges, KKK en ABSA- nie vir die klankbaan nie, maar wel vir die storie)

Labels: heritage, oil on board, portrait

Jan van Bok

oil on board, 2015

Jan van Bok, sailor and market gardener of 1652 at the Cape of Good Hope. A man, who according to the ruling herdsman of the Animal Farm in 2015 , planted the roots of destruction and sowed the seed of discontent in Southern Africa in 2015 to spoil the ANC 103rd birthday-bash in Cape Town.

Labels: heritage, oil on board, portrait

The Little Drumstick boy, 2013-15

The little Drumstick boy

oil on board 2013- 15

"He feels no disgust at his faeces, values them as a portion of his own body with which he will not readily part, and makes use of them as his first ‘gift,’ to distinguish people whom he values highly… he carries on his high valuation of faeces in his estimate of ‘gifts’ and ‘money.’. . there are many people who retain a voluptuous feeling in defaecating all through their lives….From the very first, children are one in thinking that babies must be born through the bowel; they must make their appearance like lumps of faeces--"

Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1)

The triumh of shit: http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/kuspit/kuspit9-11-08.asp

Labels: oil on board, portrait

Mr. Road Rage, 2014, oil on board

Mr. Road Rage

Labels: oil on board, portrait, traffic

Oskar, the Opera, a libretto

Oskar the Opera or a day inside court outside court
a libretto under cross examination waiving the airs
starring a Judge, Prosecutor Gerrie Nel (the terrier) and Murder Acccused Oskar”blade runner” Pistorius and a judge
by arnaud malan

Gestalt of temper tantrums
And an approximate
Bang bang theory. Today. yesterday

Zombie splatter show: nit Picking incessantly we’ve a rough time answer to that
Nasty

Drama . unveiled.
The night before not sure. Argument
The flirting, the yes
Jealous and insecure you are , snap
And after that
I feel sick

A public scene take to take offence, take it where you get it
Brush it off

Drop her, whats app the issue
Off.. Please answer the questions.

A double standard relationship Chickdates, rock the boat ,
Demands on me
For you,
You do everything to throw tantrums before people.
Maybe brush it off, have a disagreement, feel upset
Don’t

Jingle jingle

Maybe we’ll go back to the court at a moment.
This is eyewitness news.

I don’t remember
Character
You screamed at her
Or shouted
And snapped at me
She scared of the feelings
No! of how you react, to

I’m not some other bitch

‘m in love with you , want to tell you -
I wanted to sort that out

I wanted to tell you that I love you………
You did not care then
( sort that out)

Its all about Mr Pistorius . sidestep
Good.
Shit mood.

On the 26th
We’ll deal with snapped at and told a role of some sort serious conversation my buying a house and told me my offence offended my house I oscar, me oscar Stop strocking my neck, stop chewing gum, stop your accents, on camera your image chewing gum I was told stop that, Don’t do this that, do as I

You Fucked up a young lady,
where accent and voices are annoying
I am sad
In what you did
Humiliating her -
Especially in public

Upset , be part of it ,
She was at fault, that’s correct m’Lady

What was that apologise
So, I , we , we, I , we I , my I mett late as well, we I so we
Eh for some reason. I don’t remember that M’Lady
Youre blaming her
Any ragument list hall about ew , who feruse to capecct presnosiliblity, sanswhere ymi tuesqion !

I was upset. (so cool)
I’m putting to you you apologise I read that I was hurry in I am that understanding that any
Argument is of any to and fro is which of one to and one ‘s fro is argument is of which

That song, isnt it that song you were playing?
Bitch don’t kill my wife -- ?

301 @ 303
I am a person too
If she believed I trearted her badly
I don’t remember that You asked for the gun
You had the gun when the shot went off
What happened
Who told you that
You see
I don’t remember
I don’t remember that

Glock at Tashas.
Cpt Mangena says its impossible to fire that gun with out your finger on the trigger
Blame everybody but yourself, I did not pull the trigger
Lets take an ad break

(A tall story getting shorter)

My finger was not on the trigger. At Taschas I must have put another round in the chamber
Check the magazine first Check the slide Check the magazine I didn’t do it I should have
And at that moment I discharged I didn’t pull the trigger I didn’t have time to think

You see its all the same We had that yesterday. Its all the same .

What happened. Thats absurd I had to go training On a Sunday A burst pipe, we had to wait, I asked for the song
There could have been times

The point 38 ammuniton in your safe: I do m’lady, kept an extra magazine in my bedside table,
It’s the third occasion that you are playing the legal team, its illegal
That’s not my understanding of the law . That
I don’t remember

Where would your person be on your shorts ?!
I’m asking you!
okay
The policeman was in his rights. What is his duty? You had it, one up
I ignored him.I couldn’t find the round.If he had dealt with the situation more professionally.
Policeman acting. Agressively: do you know what I can do with that gun ? he could have handled the situation better.

The legend of the Miraculous discharge

The sunroof never happened
A terrible fabrication
Again we have to blame
You heard from people
Who told you they said that

I apologise for laughing
I hope it does’nt happen again.
Is that the gallery mam, yes it is
Thankyou. not laughing.

15 minutes before lunch
I don’t want to get confused
In what sequence 2 taps or
The four shots in quick succession I can’t remember they only told me afterwards I fired four shots.

I NEVER MEANT TO PULL THE TRIGGER

It went off accidentally I did’nt have time to think I heard a noise no reason for you to shoot if you waited a second if you waited you would not have not fired at the intruders were’nt there the door was there we know for a fact there were no intruders there was no ladder there was a noise that was Reeva behind the door we know facts facts facts facts I interpreted in a split second intruders fear and started shooting it was ‘nt accidentally I didn’t intend to shoot it was an accident! the door

Lunch.

She was doing Yoga exercises Just lying on the bed,

the tv was on I climbed into the bed on the lefthandside where you did not sleep usually because of an injury sometimes I slept away from her put the fans in position lying flat one on top of the other what happened then watching tv trying to chat on my ipad showing me pictures on my phone and my arm around her neck her legs I fell asleep which favourite cars we would have on her phone when you woke up what noise I don’t know it was humid and hot I sat up and heard a noise I never said that I sat up in bed rubbed my face baba you cant you sleep baba no ican’t the curtains were drawn make out silhouettes I did’nt see reeva I held my head I did’nt sse her M’Lady
Walked aroud the bed took the small fan and then you closed and locked the door and curtains. Easy or nothing bothered you not and nothing was in the way my back facing the room she’s there I didn’t seee her gettting out of bed it was pitchblack and I placed the fan closed the curtains if she got up it was pitchblack

You face the tv I could barely see anything the jeans on the floor on the amplifier did you put the duvet on the floor she was under the duvet could you see that her legs ( I fired in quick succession) it don’t mean a thing, only on talk radio 702, its a nightmare. Available at diskem farmaseas, crime line , sms , oskarextra go to clic and launch yourself, lets get back , what else is wrong there the fan blocked the door look for a policemen my watches went missing the fan the duvet the curtain make your defence difficult around the time make a statement to th e accused where is the evidence of the argument its circumstantial evidence, if you want to say something that ends todays coverage that’s so improbable nobody can believe you eyewittness news talk radio absorbing evidence riveting listening anyway at some pont people may go to the polls which we will talk about its three o’clock.

Labels: forensic studies, portrait

crimeariver, 2014 (on Putinism and Crimea), mixed media on board, 70 x 100cm

crimeariver

input putput output = + Putin

at the outset stood a diffuse collage of script jumbles trying to make sense of pre-evolutionary Primate politics and disinformation.
Putin bashing Trump Derangement Syndrome that became Russiagate .

Worked the events to a crisis of oil and water technique, as east meets west, where hot and cold conflict and left opposes right opposes . Thicken the sauce of plot licking politicking and stir fry . Stir the ever oilier and fierier broth . Watch and dig , cover uncover, composed in the art of manufactured consent , false flagging and frothing and foaming of fascists, Obama went ,Trump came, and the painting done all said.

19.03.2014 ff , 4, 11, 2014...

CRIMEARIVER

(Disclaimer Jan. 2017 : This painting was not intended to interfere with the American Elections)

( Disclaimer Sept. 2021 : I did not learn of Hunter and Joe Biden, Burisma or leaking lap dogs until it was disregarded in mainstream media)

Labels: mixed media, portrait

Portait, 2013, Oil on paper, 76 x 108 cm)

Labels: mixed media, portrait

On Animal Farm, The Great Dictator et al

Animal Farm

The Economic FreedomWriter

Maskerade

2013

72 x 100

Labels: oil on board, portrait

Economic Freedom Writer, 2013, acryl on board, 72 x 102 cm

Economic Freedom Writer, Sept. 2013

acryl on board , 72x102 cm,

hashtags:

the little drumstick boy, red beret, chicken lick'em, presstitute, freedom fist-fighter armed with a pen poised mighty s-word , holy banana ,opinionista, media

Labels: portrait