My painting is all about this interchangeability of languages in art, where one second you might feel the background has the shading and tonalities you would see in a Rembrandt portrait, but the subject is completely different and painted like some low-culture, transgressive mutation of a comic strip.
American artist George Condo combines figuration and abstraction in his paintings, fusing the contrasting aesthetics of old master painting, cubism, and pop art together.
I love to draw and I love to paint and I thought, why should there be any distinction or hierarchy between those two mediums? Why not put them together as a single thing, the same way I was talking about languages.
Condo’s first public exhibitions were held in East Village galleries between 1981 and 1983. It was also during this time that he worked...
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