- Frank Creber
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- Falling off the table
Original artwork description
Falling off the Table presents a strange and unsettling interior scene that feels suspended between reality and dream. The setting is a stark, sparsely furnished room containing only a table, a small cupboard, and a window through which an intense yellowish light pours, flooding the space with an unnatural glow. This light does not offer warmth or clarity; instead, it heightens the sense of unease and disorientation that permeates the painting.
Several figures occupy the room, each absorbed in a peculiar and seemingly purposeless activity. One character is attempting to climb into a cupboard that is clearly too small to accommodate him, his effort futile and illogical. Another figure is engaged in the act of tipping the dining table upward, disrupting the stability of the room’s central object. A third clings desperately to the table, half peering underneath it, as though searching for something hidden or lost. Despite their physical proximity, these figures appear disconnected from one another, locked into their own private actions and concerns.
Strikingly, none of these three figures seems fully attentive to the painting’s central event. At the heart of the composition is a woman grasping onto a person who is sliding off the now upturned surface of the table. This moment suggests urgency and tension, yet it unfolds without dramatic alarm. There is no visible panic, and no immediate physical danger is apparent, which makes the scene feel emotionally muted rather than overtly chaotic.
What binds all the figures together is a shared atmosphere of illogical dreaming. The painting evokes the sensation of being trapped in a frustrating dream from which one cannot awaken, where actions feel compelled yet meaningless. This dreamlike quality suggests deeper themes of psychological unrest, confusion, or crisis. Rather than depicting a single narrative, Falling off the Table captures a moment of mental imbalance, where rational order has collapsed and individuals drift through a shared but fragmented reality.
Materials used:
acrylic
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 200 x 200 x 3cm (unframed) / 200 x 200cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#drama#people#unsettling#a room#pschological
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Original artwork description
Falling off the Table presents a strange and unsettling interior scene that feels suspended between reality and dream. The setting is a stark, sparsely furnished room containing only a table, a small cupboard, and a window through which an intense yellowish light pours, flooding the space with an unnatural glow. This light does not offer warmth or clarity; instead, it heightens the sense of unease and disorientation that permeates the painting.
Several figures occupy the room, each absorbed in a peculiar and seemingly purposeless activity. One character is attempting to climb into a cupboard that is clearly too small to accommodate him, his effort futile and illogical. Another figure is engaged in the act of tipping the dining table upward, disrupting the stability of the room’s central object. A third clings desperately to the table, half peering underneath it, as though searching for something hidden or lost. Despite their physical proximity, these figures appear disconnected from one another, locked into their own private actions and concerns.
Strikingly, none of these three figures seems fully attentive to the painting’s central event. At the heart of the composition is a woman grasping onto a person who is sliding off the now upturned surface of the table. This moment suggests urgency and tension, yet it unfolds without dramatic alarm. There is no visible panic, and no immediate physical danger is apparent, which makes the scene feel emotionally muted rather than overtly chaotic.
What binds all the figures together is a shared atmosphere of illogical dreaming. The painting evokes the sensation of being trapped in a frustrating dream from which one cannot awaken, where actions feel compelled yet meaningless. This dreamlike quality suggests deeper themes of psychological unrest, confusion, or crisis. Rather than depicting a single narrative, Falling off the Table captures a moment of mental imbalance, where rational order has collapsed and individuals drift through a shared but fragmented reality.
Materials used:
acrylic
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 200 x 200 x 3cm (unframed) / 200 x 200cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#drama#people#unsettling#a room#pschological
Frank Creber
United Kingdom
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