Spectacle#4 (visit to Rijksmuseum) Painting

For the first time, I decided to make my painting a construct from the very outset. Although delivered as an imitation of a photograph, the scene in question is not documentary (even if it was staged), but rather a complex scene created through digital manipulation and then transferred into the medium of painting. It is at the same time the falsification of reality, as well as its product. The Night watch, famous painting by Rembrandt, serves as the backdrop, being a recognizable commonplace within culture. At the same time, it was not my goal to refer to the painting nor its author, but rather to point out the status of the painting as a marketing product, a spectacle reduced to a recognizable poster. And it is the main task of a spectacle to present to us, using various forms of mediation, the world we are no longer able to experience directly.