This surreal pencil drawing depicts a fantastical figure in a formal suit standing amidst a cityscape backdrop. The bold, geometric shapes and distorted, mask-like facial features create a striking, dreamlike composition. The artist's use of stark contrasts and intricate detailing reflects a distinctively Expressionistic style. This work appears to challenge traditional representation, suggesting a commentary on the dehumanizing aspects of modern urban life and the subversion of the human form. The overall tone conveys a sense of unease and discomfort, reflecting the artist's intention to elicit an unsettling emotional response in the viewer. ...
As one of the Chicago Imagists – whose distinctive, vibrant and graphic style used a collision of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking – Art Green’s paintings combined pop art and its engagement with advertising and material culture with a mid-20th Century technicolour reimagining of surrealism. Green collected materials such as postcards, magazine advertisements and commercial signage, pulling from a broad range of cultural and socio-political references, and used formal effects such as hatching and a combination of flat and undulating planes of colour to unsettle the viewer. He also played with compositional elements, spatial relationships and techniques like trompe l'oeil to symbolically question the viewer’s complicity in the themes that he depicted. ...
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