Garth Herrick's Apotheoun is a Smithsonian Competition Semifinalist

[Garth Herrick]

Thanks Jimmie, I hear you!

Garth

[Edgar Coleman]

Congratulations on being chosen as a semifinalist for the Boochever 2006 Portrait Competition, Garth! Best wishes for the final selection, I am certain that you will do well.

Regards,

Edgar

[Garth Herrick]

Originally Posted by Edgar Coleman

Congratulations on being chosen as a semifinalist for the Boochever 2006 Portrait Competition, Garth! Best wishes for the final selection, I am certain that you will do well.

Regards,

Edgar

Thanks Edgar! We certainly cannot predict the future, but for the present, your best wishes give some hope.

Garth

[Alexandra Tyng]

Congratulations, Garth! I know I already told you over the phone, but I might as well tell you again: it's a great painting, and it pushes the envelope of "what is a portrait?" which is, I think, one of the things this show wants to do. Now you have a 50% chance of getting to the finals!

Alex

[Allan Rahbek]

Congarthulations,
I wish that I could see this masterpiece in person. No matter how often I look at it it always seems to hide a story. It

[Molly Sherrick Phifer]

This is fantastic news. I'm rooting for you to go the distance!

[Claudemir Bonfim]

Congratulations Garth! I just would like to know the meaning of "Apotheoun", you know, I'm a foreigner. I wish I could see it personally. Maybe some day.
Kindest wishes.

[Garth Herrick]

Originally Posted by Claudemir Bonfim

Congratulations Garth! I just would like to know the meaning of "Apotheoun", you know, I'm a foreigner. I wish I could see it personally. Maybe some day.
Kindest wishes.

Claudemir, thanks for your kind wishes!

As for the title: Apotheoun is a foreign word here too. I found the following at Dictionary.com:

Word of the Day for Monday May 7, 2001

apotheosis \uh-pah-thee-OH-sis; ap-uh-THEE-uh-sis\, noun
plural apotheoses \-seez\:
1. Elevation to divine rank or stature; deification.
2. An exalted or glorified example; a model of excellence or perfection of a kind.

Following martyrdom at the Alamo and apotheosis in song, tall tale, and celluloid myth, this bumpkin from west Tennessee [Davy Crockett] became better known and more revered than all but a handful of American presidents.
--Mark Royden Winchell, Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism

Plato's Athens, conventionally the apotheosis of civilized Western urbanity, endured Diogenes the Cynic, who (according to tradition) dwelt in contented filth under an overturned bathtub outside the city gates, heaping ribald scorn on philosophers and citizens alike.
--Mark Caldwell, A Short History of Rudeness

Charles I's court represented the English apotheosis of this Renaissance ideal of kingship.
--John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination


Apotheosis comes from Greek, from apotheoun, "to deify," from apo- + theos, "a god."

Of course, this painting has nothing to do with definition #2!

An earlier related painting I did was titled "Apotheosis of the Chunnel". That one is too hard to explain. I picked "Apotheoun" because it was related or a root to apotheosis.

Garth

[Garth Herrick]

[QUOTE=Allan Rahbek]Congarthulations,
I wish that I could see this masterpiece in person. No matter how often I look at it it always seems to hide a story. It

[Allan Rahbek]

Garth,
I think that, for many painters, the story they tell is the one about looking.

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