(Featured Image: The Revelation of St. John, 44″ x 144″, tryptic)
Rosemarie Adcock’s painting ‘The Revelation of St. John’ that took a full year to complete has been invited to exhibit at the International Art Competition know a ‘The ArtPrize’ in Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 12 to October 3.
Of all the hosting venues around the entire city participating in this great event, the venue, certainly the largest, is the beautiful DeVos Place Convention Center. Her painting received an invitation to hang in that facility.
The ArtPrize Exhibition takes place every year, and it is best known because of its huge monetary awards. This year the top award, chosen by the people in attendance, is $100,000.
The Revelation of St John painting, accepted to exhibit during the ArtPrize, is painted on 3 panels to make 1 complete composition, otherwise known as a tryptic. The center panel shows the Apostle John on the island of Patmos where he was sent into exile. He is seated with a dove, having received the letters to the 7 churches, or cities. The Lord stands over him, in the midst of lamps, holding 7 stars. Angels who were instructed to hold back the 4 winds are shown on each panel. Two of them are here. The 2 Witnesses mentioned in the Book of Revelation are at the left, walking into the left panel called The Tribulation panel.
The Tribulation panel depicts all the frightening things we read about in the Book of Revelation: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; The angels with trumpets announcing judgements; the woman with a Child protected by God; a Beast from the Ground and a Beast from the Sea; The Dragon with multiple heads and horns that are actually symbols of nations, and the Archangel Michael who fights to subdue it. I decided the story should go from darkness to light, so this panel is at the far left of the painting.
https://www.artprize.org/