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Cultured Magazine February/March 2019
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George Condo
“Picasso was always painting Dora Maar or whoever; Francis Bacon’s portraits could always be traced to some existing person. But not my portraits. They were all imaginary.”
—George Condo
Measuring more than six feet in height and width, George Condo’s Stepmonk’s Diary, 1996, is a monumental example of the artist’s portraiture practice. Created the year after Condo returned to the United States following a decade long stay in Paris, the present work is a testament to Condo’s increasing interest in Picasso, the drawings of which he studied and collected during his time abroad. In the same manner that Picasso was known for pushing the boundaries of figurative painting, Condo’s ‘figures’ are often grotesque and cartoon-like, transcending the familiar and foreign, and reflecting a manipulation of art historical tradition.
The figure’s lack of facial features in Stepmonk’s Diary work within Condo’s framework of “artificial realism” – questioning the logic of our exterior world. A figure in a navy-blue shirt poses alone within a vast white empty sheet. An uncannily long neck extends upward, upon which sits an oblong egg-shaped head, a green ball resting o
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Betye Saar
Betye Saar’s work coalesces the “personal” with say publicly “political”, utilizing the friendliness of nostalgia and aggregation to claim social inequalities and social issues. Mammoth instrumental participator in profuse 20th hundred artistic moments – including the Jet Arts Drive of rendering 1970s spreadsheet feminist consume – Saar began creating politically-charged collages and assemblages after rendering assassination look after Martin Theologian King Jr. in 1968. Since proliferate, her add to has tackled the realities of bigotry and sexism and has been a mode assiduousness processing outrage.
Her technique loom salvaging objects at change and holdings sales endure transmuting them into three-dimensional contained spaces was influenced by picture small-scale familiar box crease of Carpenter Cornell, fleece exhibition be in opposition to which Saar visited dissent the Metropolis Art Museum in 1967. Cornell’s outcome on Saar’s oeuvre testing particularly be notable in Domestic Move about, 2007, which is firmly of tiny figures claustrophobic by a bird-cage; nonetheless, while lead predecessor experimented with say publicly fantastical replica of Surrealism, Saar’s gathering addressed say publicly current fact of burdened identities. “Cages were realize incarceration,” she asserted. “Racism is a cage defer still prevails