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Progress Myth Art Print
by Tom Calderon
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Progress Myth art print by Tom Calderon. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Like the lightning bolt generated electrical charge the animates the Frankenstein monster in the lab, the myth of Western Progress gives inspiring... more
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Artist's Description
Like the lightning bolt generated electrical charge the animates the Frankenstein monster in the lab, the myth of Western Progress gives inspiring life to the man-made monstrosities of Modern World.
About Tom Calderon
I began making art by learning to draw Rick Griffin's Murphy cartoon character for friends at school. As a San Francisco Bay area teenager in the Sixties, the Avalon and Fillmore dance hall posters inspired me to draw psychedelic visionary art that won awards in high school exhibitions. I made linoleum block prints with biblical themes in the Seventies, and then a series of xerox collage images that I called "Ideographs" or "Psychic Flowcharts" in the Eighties. During the following decade, I created multimedia performance art for the shows put on by several Santa Cruz art collectives- The Average Americans and the Interactionists. The events in the early part of the new millennium focused my interest in politics and propaganda into the...
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Tom Calderon
Thanks. I am glad you like it. It's symbols emerged from the detritus of a communal table covered with books, magazines and wine bottles that had all been cut into pretty deeply by the artists present. The Myth of Progress- is an important subject. Its delusions have our culture writhing in pain like the two Age of Reason fellows who seem willing to be electrocuted, sacrifices to technological development.
Brenda Stroth
Tom, this piece is fascinating. What a story it portrays.