The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy, Oil, Expressionism The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy — artist's signature The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy — edge view The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy — detail The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy — shown hanging
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The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy, Oil, Expressionism
The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy
The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy
The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy — artist's signature
The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy — edge view
The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy — detail
The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone by Pete Conroy — shown hanging
Painting by Pete Conroy 637 Artwork Sold

The Man Who Wanted To Be Left Alone

Oil, Canvas, Ready to hang

29.9in (W) x 35.8in (H) x 1.6in (D)

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$1,450

Artwork Description

This is a painting from my “Peasants Revolt” series based on a quote by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.

The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.”

― Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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Pete Conroy 931 artworks | 440 Sold

Pete Conroy is an English artist based in Echuca. He focuses his attention on portraits and distortion of the human face and figure. Using traditional techniques mixed with a modern style he paints humans with impossibly stretched facial features and limbs.
Where the shape and structure of his subjects are out of sync with reality he attempts to bring the characters back into the realistic realm with a mix of modern and traditional techniques of oil painting.