The Sailor - George Condo - Modern Abstract Art Painting - Art Prints
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About The Sailor George Condo Modern Abstract Art Painting
The Young Sailor by George Condo belongs to a series titled the ‘Toy Heads’ from 2012 – a series of eighteen robot-like portraits comprising characters such as Iron Man, Mike Kelley and, in the present instance, Picasso in his signature striped Breton shirt. All featuring Condo’s iconic reconstructed Cubist heads, the portraits together present a rigorous interrogation of the tradition of portraiture – specifically, Condo’s enduring preoccupations with the depths of subject-hood and its strained relationship with the painted surface. While Picasso’s experiments with Cubism fractured light and form to achieve greater contextual truth via a multitude of viewpoints, Condo’s engagement in Cubist techniques go beyond ‘visual truth’, revealing instead the artificiality of all visual representation, i.e. the impossibility of presenting an identity to the world. Amongst the portraits in the ‘Toy Heads’ portraiture series, only a few are titled as homages to specific characters, with the present work being such an example. Not only is The Young Sailor a direct tribute to Matisse’s The Young Sailor (1906) and Picasso’s The Sailor (1943), which is regarded as a self-portrait of sorts; Condo's cubist head also dons a black-and-white striped shirt, a nod to Picasso and Warhol, who were often photographed in the Breton shirt. Arguably the most special work in the ‘Toy Heads’ series, The Young Sailor is an exemplary Condo portrait in line with the very best of the artist’s universally acclaimed oeuvre.About the Art Prints
The Sailor - George Condo - Modern Abstract Art Painting by George Condo. Our art prints are produced on acid-free 220 GSM papers using archival inks and lamination to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All prints include a sufficent white border around the image to allow for future framing, if desired. Product will be shipped in 2 days
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