The Fisherman's Nightmare

Artist: Nathalie Chavieve

Title: The Fisherman's Nightmare

Media:  Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 50 X 60 cm

Date: 2012

Nathalie Chavieve was born on December 19, 1970. She states on her website that her love of art started at the age of four when her grandfather taught her how to draw with crayons. She also states that her “ultimate aim is to fill up each of my paintings with very deep philosophical statement, great thoughts, secrets and symbols to be revealed by the viewer.”

On Fine Art America Nathalie states that she is a lover of nature and animals and so she is worried about climate change. Nathalie stated that The Fisherman’s Nightmare is a representation of part of  her thought on climate change. She states that The Fisherman’s Nightmare “is her little contribution to the process of the saving of our planet.”

I chose to display The Fisherman’s Nightmare in my exhibition because it shows (in a surrealism form) the effects of global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has stated that global warming could lead to an increase of ocean temperatures which can affect much of the marine habitat that is not able to adapt-this is precisely what The Fisherman's Nightmare symbolizes. The Fisherman’s Nightmare shows a fisherman on a dried up ocean with dead fish and in the distance buildings emitting gases that contributed to the death of the ocean. To me the dried up ocean symbolizes an increase in ocean temperature which will lead to  many marine animal deaths. I find surrealist paintings quite interesting because of the symbol interpretation and I hope my viewers will too. 

http://www.nathaliechavieve.com/surrealism3.html
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-fishermans-nightmare-nathalie-chavieve.html
IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani,