![]() ![]() ![]() The element of gothic creepiness that characterized the ghoulish upside-down figure in Nausea (2008) was echoed here in works like Die Mutter des Künstlers (2016), which, based on a Delacroix image, depicts a headless nude woman in a blue void extending a bloody finger, and Life on the Moon (2016), which turns the figure in Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun’s Madame Grand (1783) into a possessed creature with red-rimmed eyes rolling upward and a blue face framed by green hair. 1629–30), whose figure he has endowed with a red clown nose and blue face rendered in trippy, swirling brushstrokes, are close cousins of paintings such as The Great Masturbator (2006), in which he portrayed a Rembrandt youth as a sort of sickly, green-faced creature. His three versions of Rembrandt’s Bust of a Laughing Young Man (ca. ![]()
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