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composition, Warhol has another thing in common with Wright:
like Wright he produced multiples of this image, but he differed
from the British artist in varying the colour balance of his volca-
noes, producing lava that is sometimes yellow, sometimes, red,
sometimes black.
The paintings by the New York artist David Clarkson take
the natural detachment of volcanoes to an extreme, and use the
moving image in a manner quite at odds with the way James P.
Graham uses it. Clarkson's sources are the cctv images of
volcanoes in their living state, but here flattened in substance,
and with diminished colour that distances them emotionally
from the viewer. Further distancing comes from the inclusion of
computer rubric giving date, time and place at the edges of some
of the works.
We have travelled great distances, artistically and emotion-
ally, from Pierre-Jacques Volaire to David Clarkson, and it is a
reasonable guess that we have further yet to go. With increasing
Mud bath crater at the
Tizdar volcano in the
Sea of Azov, Krasnodar
Krai, Russia, 2009.
