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David C Gallup
Tiputa Pass Snorkel

2019

$38,400
$48,00020% Off
£29,670.66
£37,088.3320% Off
€34,302.08
€42,877.6020% Off
CA$54,261.98
CA$67,827.4720% Off
A$60,858.42
A$76,073.0220% Off
CHF 31,870.61
CHF 39,838.2620% Off
MX$739,489.10
MX$924,361.3720% Off
NOK 404,703.36
NOK 505,879.2020% Off
SEK 383,687.30
SEK 479,609.1220% Off
DKK 256,047.09
DKK 320,058.8620% Off

About the Item

Painting a coral reef, especially one as phenomenally healthy as the one at Tiputa Pass, Rangiroa, has unique challenges. The spawning of triggerfish there attracts swarms of triggers, but also those who would feed on their eggs, those who would feed on the triggers, and those who would feed on the triggers' predators. The question for me as a painter was how to organize this chaos into patterns which could be useful to me as a composer. In the end, I found my way through it but not without significant assistance from Gustav Klimt, who set the very same challenges for himself in his paintings of forests and flower fields over a century ago.
  • Creator:
    David C Gallup (1967, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2019
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Palm Desert, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1666211886652

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