Art Evolution: Global Warming in Paintings

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Global Warming in Paintings

Dr Abe V Rotor

"Destruction of Nature has greatly influenced the evolution of art from the classical and sublime to abstract and quite often, surreal." - avr

Summer in Winter in acrylic by AV Rotor 2025

Have you listened to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons lately?
     Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter - 300 years ago;
Climate Change has disrupted their flow more than we know,

     and likely to many, lost them like a bedtime story. 

  

 

Cyclone forms and dissipates paintings by AVR 2025

Lightly we take, as if for granted, forecasts of weather, 

     yet put together for a time, bring us to our knees.

How seldom do we look up to heaven, unless driven

     into despair and lament, surrender and prayer. 

 

Wildfire in acrylic 2025

"Wildfire sweeps over heartlands and forests,

farms, pastures, villages not spared,

heat wave takes its toll in towns and cities,

       grown ups and children are scared." - avr

Author's note: Make this into lyrics of a song, contemporary style.

 

 

Desertification in various art works by the author.  

Whatever happens to Mother Earth, we may ask 

before the great divide - man the caring and loving,

and man the greedy and proud - in between, man 

the indifferent, uncommitted to life's greatest task.

Eerie Landscape wall mural smudged by carbon emission from vehicles, and exposure to sudden change of temperature and untimely rainfall, which characterize current climate change. Painted by AV Rotor, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur 2023

Listen to silence in grief and gloom,

facing a wall once the fairest of all;

a promontory no longer human form,

his ship abandoned after his Fall.

Treetops, Aerial View in acrylic

Children would come to me, "Lolo, can we draw?"
    "Perhaps you like to draw about today's news -
flood in the US, wildfire and heat wave in Europe."
     "Lolo" they chorused, "We like beautiful views,
like sunrise, green valleys, meandering stream..."  
     Denying children's joy for news is no excuse. ~