"Return of the chavin minded funny one" Ces53 2007, 180 x 60 cm.

"Return of the chavin minded funny one" Ces53 2007, 180 x 60 cm.

Street art or figurative paintings.

My figurative paintings are inspired by by other inspiration sources, mainly historical art styles of the great ancient civilisations, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Minoans, Aztecs, Mayans, Chavin, Moche and others, tattoo art, tribal art, 60s Poster art, Classical art and Modern arts like Post modern art, Pop-art and comics.

The Chavin minded funny one:

A funny one is a "Clown from hell", my personal occult symbol of duality, clowns are funny and hell is not so much fun, that creates an paradox..ying/yang whatever you want to call it..

Chavin was an culture from ancient Peru, they where known to practice human sacrifice, and use hallucinogenic drugs like San Perdo cacti and Ayahuasca, the style of the painting is inspired by Chavin, since in my opinion those type of cultural arts are overlooked and forgotten by a lot of modern artists. I am personally not fond of minimaistic and pur conceptual art, so my figurative paintings go against the styles mentioned.

This painting depicts 3 figures, those figures are also reffering to the letters C.E.S. ( my graffiti pseudonym ).

In the figures their eye brows you may notice little geometic shapes, a downward pointed traingle in the C, a diamond shape in the E, and a traingle pointing upward in the S, those again are dualty symbols, but with different side meanings to them, these symbols where used by painter Piet Mondiaan in his painting Evolution 1910/1911, the origin of those symbols is very old and probably goes back to ancient Egypt.

The triangle pointing down is a symbol for water, the triangle pointing upward is the symbol for fire, and the diamond is the synergy between two oppostites, again an ying/yang type of symbol and also a sign of understanding, note in the Mondriaan painting that the eyes are open of the middle figure, meaning seeing, knowing, understanding.

The middle figure containing the diamond shape, is a joker wearing a fools hat, the king of clowns, you can see that the rim of the fools hat contains eyes, eyes and in particular the third eye is an symbol of the illuminated ones or enlightend ones, reffering to having knowledge/understanding of how stuff works, since I claim to "see" or know more then the avarage person, I used mulitpe eyes, suggesting that the hat has eyes on all sides, front , back, and sideways, suggesting knowledge and understanding is present in me and my paintings.

The joker figure is wearing a necklace of flowers and skulls, again a dualty symbol, and again with a slightly different side meaning, the life and death cirlcle it is.

Done