Gustave Nouel - Culture/nature
My lifeplan and visions are a consequense of my choices and the fenotypic influences on the genotypic part of my being as GOD created me...
dated 1978 until 2006, react to the artist (click on an image to enlarge an artwork)
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Betico in Gold1996 |
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As a homage to the icon who helped to reach the aruban status aparte as part of the Dutch Kingdom, this painting reflecting highlights in his life was created. Reflecting struggle and pain and the ultimate victory!...in the eyes of most Arubans. |
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Aruban Dande 1 (diptic)2006 |
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cultural heritage of Aruba is a new year greeting with music and floklore... Dande! Part of Aruban culture and fenotypical herritage... |
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Aruban Dande 2 (diptic)2006 |
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cultural heritage of Aruba is a new year greeting with music and floklore... Dande! |
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Natural bridge, before and after2005 |
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Beginning and end, life and death, nature is a timeless circle of processes refleced by the fall of the natural bridge, an icon of the Aruban people falls, but life goes on! Destiny reflected!? |
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Natural Dam, fallen bridge...2005 |
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A new landscape a new beauty of nature is revealed. Is this the philosophy of the creation? Is this the question I should ask? four different angles of this new view!! Four paintings in one, or one in four? |
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Casi Bari Stones2005 |
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Like a rudimentary abstraction the essence of Casi Bari can be related to a grave yard, but a very beautiful grave yard indeed, when we penetrate in this Beauty of creation... |
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Willem III2005 |
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Talking about icons and human vanity, sometimes it serves a means in time and space... |
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Alto Vista2005 |
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A place for paryer and contemplation created by man for religious and higher purposes, a mythical part of the human nature projections |
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Alto vista sketch2005 |
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A monument created for faith and prayer |
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fofoty/divi or fallen icon...2005 |
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An icon destroyed by humans. Not just any tree, one that became King if the divi's and a man made touristic attraction. The fairy tale is over, but the myth still lives on at the same time... |
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fofoti inspirations sketch2005 |
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The magic of an icon created by humans and destroyed by humans... a timeless moment in time! |
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churches...2005 |
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Monumental projections in time and space of human vanity and religious intentions... |
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Portrait of a beauty queen1997 |
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In Aruba there is a culture around the beauty queens, just like some latin countries around the caribbean |
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Carni Aval1997 |
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The essence of Carnival as I see it... in Aruba, at last! |
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Nightlife1996 |
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The Aruban nightlife is exciting, but there are many risks that can be avoided... But surely inspiring! |
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Dera Gay inspiration1995 |
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Typical Aruban culture, used as official design in the Dera Gay festivities... |
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Arubanita1995 |
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A painting inspired on the Aruban essence, used as official design of Aruba's Carnival. The rattle snake only lives on Aruba! Check the mini-iguana painted on the wall of the house... |
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Chez mathilde monument1995 |
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A monumental piece of Aruban culture and globalisation process during in the process. Culture reflected in time and space... |
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Two tailed iguana1995 |
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This two tailed iguana with aparently two penis, was a virility myth created in Aruba. At this moment in time it was dead but the myth was very alive and comercialized! Man-made cultural hype... untill a three-tailed iguana came along and spoiled the game! |
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Aruba carnival spirit...1994 |
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Aruban culture reflected... |
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Fast food in Aruba...1978 |
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(From my sketchbook)In 1978, beginning my art studies somewhere between Minerva academy and AKI academy, this fast-food culture intrigued me into several drawings... Fast food in Aruba is part of the globalisation, the international acculturation process, whether we like it or not! |
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beach1978 |
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inspired by the myth of the Aruban sun, sea and sand ... |
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Beach 21978 |
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The Aruban Beach was a timeless source of inspiration for me, even during my AKI art academy studies... |