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Over the past two decades, Carl Gopalkrishnan's artwork has garnered international recognition for his ability to forge meaningful connections between art & literature and the complex dynamics driving international law, intervention and global conflict. Carl transforms familiar cultural artefacts into new myths so legal and military minds can explore the creative, subconscious and emotional stories that shape their doctrines of war & peace. (Photograph copyright © Amanda Brown 1992)
Studio Notes: Bildungsroman - a self-portrait
Bildungsroman is a self-portrait which continues my exploration of the universal spiritual and philosophical canon to ‘Know Thyself’. I have followed a multi-faith journey held together by the creation of a personal God that expresses my own culture. We talk in private, so painting us speaking in metaphors maintain that sacredness…
Sharing my art with students of the classics reading ‘The Oresteia’, University of Florida.
I somehow got chatting with Prof Victoria Pagan, an expert in classic literature at the University of Florida in the US who was teaching an undergraduate class on The Oresteia. My painting A Many Splendored Thing (2020), and the Furies became a trigger for a class discussion.