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Brightly Blazing Again
Written By: Neil Hickey - The Courier Mail , Brisbane, Australia, National
6/30/2006
AFTER slaving for more than a month to paint a 10m long replica of one of Vincent van Gogh's most revered paintings, Canadian artist Cameron Cross omitted one small detail his signature.
Now back seven years later to reapply a fresh coat to the giant masterpiece, Cross, still miffed at the oversight, won't forget this time.
"I thought I put it in the corner here but I guess not," he said. "I'll remember to put it in this time."
The painting, an enlarged version of one of van Gogh's "seven sunflowers", has stood in the centre of Queensland's sunflower capital, Emerald, in the state's central highlands, since 1999.
But a build-up of grime and a lack of rain to wash it away required Cross, a 42-year-old artist from Winnipeg, to return to retouch the painting.
The original version of the masterpiece hangs in a gallery in Amsterdam, where the young van Gogh once studied.
Cross will spend 10 days and use almost 20 litres of automobile paint to restore the giant replica. When it's finished, two cranes will return the painting to a 23m tall easel that stands in Morton Park. Collectively, the display weighs 17,000kg.
It is one of just three in the world and the only one outside North America. But Cross, not surprisingly a "big fan" of the Dutch artist, said a looming sponsorship from a bank in the Netherlands could result in three more being painted for display in China, Hong Kong and Taipei.
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/story/0,20797,19630984-3102,00.html
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