REAL acrylic canvas paintings done by my self :)
I am bringing them to second life to share with u all.
This is a painting mounted on canvas.Click on the painting and you will receive a note card that contains the artist bio and artistic expression.
My art usually holds some deep rooted meaning, not all is what it seem :)
Artistic Expression:
The Bull
Somewhere in the early 1920's emerged a comic script, which from all accounts, was an exaggeration of an incident said to have taken place on one of the countryside sugar estates on st kitts known as Belmont. This plantation was owned by an Englishman,
Arthur Davis, now deceased, who was brother of one of the early Basseterre Sugar Factory managers, also deceased, and known as Basil Davis. The older heads tell that Arthur Davis had procured a stud bull for the estate in a young steer, but as it developed he engaged some estate hands to look after it. It so happened that the animal also developed in fierceness and as it made to gore one of the herdsmen, he stabbed it. The bull fell down and thinking it was dead, he reported to Mr. Davis, and he brought in a veterinary surgeon who treated it and it survived.
The play which follows shows the extent to which the matter was stretched, and continues today to be one of the surviving relics of former Christmas street entertainment. The cast is made up of eight players as follows: Bull, Arthur Davis, Sweetie, Oak, Sifter, Dr. Pick-Me-Heel, Backanash the Dog and a Police Sergeant. Musical accompaniment is provided from tambourine, chopping reel, bar-horn, triangle, shackpan, and bamboo fife.
The person playing the bull is usually attired in a bright red suit, and on his head he wears a pair of dangerous-looking cattle horns fitted into a removable headgear, which is also attached to a wire-mesh mask in the shape of an ox's head. The waistline of this performer is expected to be of a flexible nature in order to portray the gyrations of a sex-crazed animal as he swings his stiffened tail on his backside.
Except for the doctor and the sergeant the others are bedecked in multicoloured patterns of dress adorned with bells and mirrors, and each player wields a whip of plaited cattle skin.
- Real acrylic canvas painting
