Rolf Groven, political painter

"Children of Abraham, 2003"

I'm a big fan of Rolf Groven.
He makes his fine art a political demonstration against unfairness in the world, it be war, pollution or just "day-to day" politics.
Many of his works has been rejected at exhibitions because of their strong, raw motives.

He has been an active painter for over 30 decades now and is still provoking the Norwegian political elite and its followers.

He does something we should see more in fine arts, using his artistic abilities to wake up the people from ignorance and dullness!




This painting is from 1971 and is inspired by the painting of Rafael with the same name; "The Sistine Madonna".
The motif is a mother and her son hit by the American napalm bombing under the Vietnam war. Groven's question was how a nation with such a strong, Christian belief could execute so much pain agains civilians in a country that had never done the USA anything! (Luckily there were a lot of people inside the USA that demonstrated against the war, but these are never the people in power, unfortunately...)

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Tattoos

I'm a big fan of tattoos. I got my first one when I was 15, something my mother still can't get over that I did. These days it has become more and more normal to see people with tattoos, and the prejudice is not so large anymore, it seems like it actually is becoming more of a norm to have one than not.

My tattoos:

Lines

I usually draw with pencil first, then colored pencils or water color and then finish with a black ink outline. The motifs are pretty absurd most of the times and you can interpret them however you like.