Gulf of Mexico Spill Inspires Digitally Produced "Oil Paintings"
 Cliff Kuang - Fast Company
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May 06, 2010
| | Ubermorgen.com has quite a different view on the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico: An oil painting on a 80,000 square mile ocean canvas with 32 million liters of oil – a unique piece of art. | |
Well that didn't take long. The disastrous spill in the Gulf of Mexico has inspired its first artistic masterpiece: Deep Horizon, a series of "oil paintings" created by digital artist Ubermorgan.
The paintings are actually drawn from images of the disaster, which have then been digitally manipulated with compression effects and video-editing. Thus, the colors in the images take on a distorted, liquefied effect - like a real-life oil painting.
According to Ubermorgan, the oil spill itself is essentially a huge drawing, done by BP, using millions of gallons of oil on a canvas of tens of thousands of miles of open sea.
Grim stuff, made all the more unsettling by the visual enchantment of the images - and the real-world devastation it abstracts. |
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