FIELD OF TITANS

 

Field of Titans, acrylic on canvas, 2022. 20" X 16"

The painting is based on a postcard drawn by the artist in 2010. It depicts a landscape in the late Jurassic period, filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles.

The plants in the landscape are characterized by ancient plants such as conifers, horsetails and cycads, as grass and flowering plants had not evolved yet at the time. 

The dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles in the artwork are the long-necked Diplodocus, the carnivorous Allosaurus, the armored Stegosaurus, a pair of Dryosaurus, a small Coelurus and a pair of flying pterosaurs called Harpactognathus. 

One of the Diplodocus feeds on the conifer trees while the one in the foreground, a juvenile, defends itself from an Allosaurus. The Stegosaurus watches over a clutch of eggs. The Coelurus had a dragonfly in its jaws. Harpactognathus is a species of long-tailed pterosaur discovered in the Morrison Formation, known for having a wealth of famous late Jurassic dinosaur fossils.  

The original postcard (2010, 5" X 3.2")

Artist's notes

The artist has a fondness for the genre of paleoart, which is a genre which depicts prehistoric animals in their natural habitat according to scientific evidence. The artist also brings over the unity themes from most of his other artworks to build a scenery which gathers several species from the same time and place.

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