more news paintings - the Bush years
NEWS PAINTINGS / BEHEADINGS, THE EUROPEAN MIGRANT DRAMA and related issues , 2014 FF
the OBAMA years
see also DRONES -
NEWPAINTING, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/business/media/charlottesville-media-trump.html, 2018
Acryl on canvas, 63"x 84" (detail),
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News painting: the Gunman After Shooting the Russian Ambassador, New York Times, 12/19/2016/2017
Acrylic on canvas
63"x84"
Rainer Ganahl
News Painting: The Gunman After Shooting the Russian Ambassador, New York Times 12/19/2016016
NEWS PAINTING, Anti-Islamic State activist and his friend beheaded in Turkey, Washington Post, 10/10/2015
accrylic paint, 220 x 160 cm / 87x 63 inches
since 2011 when suicide bombing and war woke us all up.... I started to simply paint newsweb sites (have them painted)
after 10 years a general fatigues stopped this interest in war cruelities and I stopped this series -- but with ISIS or ISOL or IS (islamic state) and their formal photogenic beheadings in desert environment - beheadings that very purely media events, made for the media and consumed by the media- I ordered more of these paintings .... and .....
NEWS PAINTING, An abondoned truck carrying the dead bodies ..., New York Times, 08/28/2015
accrylic paint, 220 x 160 cm / 87x 63 inches
NEWS PAINTING, Isis video purports to show killing of ethiopian christians, the New York Times, 04/20/2015
accrylic paint, 220 x 160 cm / 87x 63 inches
New Painting, ISIS says it has killed 2nd Japanese Hostage, the New York Times, 1/31/2015
accrylic paint, 220 x 160 cm / 87x 63 inches
NEWS PAINTING, Migrants grasped the hull of a boat ..., The New York Times, 4/21/2015, 2015 ,
accrylic paint, 220 x 160 cm / 87x 63 inches
MORE PAINTINGS TO COME
