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Painting, Acrylic on Cardboard
Size: 15.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.2 D in
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The gorilla has always fascinated. His strength and his way of life so close to humans have inspired scientists, writers, artists... and he also nourishes many fantasies... For "Gorilla Says Delighted", Patrick Gourgouillat uses several pictorial references: Andy Warhol, American comics of the 1950s and always and again Russian icons. The relationship between "the beast" and humans is hierarchical here. Above, a repetition of human heads with gouged eyes officiating like disembodied angels. At the bottom, the gorilla with a gold circle, like the Russian icons, appears as a comic book hero. Thus, the animal closest to man is sacred. It is a science fiction vision in which the order of the roles of the dominant and the dominated is reversed. Warholian bananas form the brackets framing the word "Delighted" as a humour but also as a warning... "Gorilla Says Delighted" is part of the Pop Art movement.
Painting:Acrylic on Cardboard
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:15.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.2 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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"Everything is important, everything is beautiful, everything is sad. Where do we start if we choose to tell life and make it a work of art? Michèle Mailhot My work is eclectic, both in its form and in the use of media. In general, I work in "series". I think that one of the ways of making things interesting is through diversity: the styles as well as the techniques are varied. It can be the animal world [The Animals], societal criticism [Human Behaviour], comic strip-like drawing [Mr Doggy], crazy images as if from a dream or nightmare [Short Stories], gentle melancholy [Sky Blue] or, based on my own experience, phantasmagorical worlds in a dazzling frenzy [Viva La Vida]. I am currently working on the latter series. These series are very different from each other. What interests me are the variations in energy that they imply for me. So I go from one thing to another like one goes through experiences. This is often what happens in art in general and in life in particular.
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