Wilhelm Sasnal
Portrait
2001, Oil on Canvas
50 x 73cm |
Sasnal's
green lady is marbled perfection: a towering sculptural goddess
executed as an anonymous product of design. Cropped, chin
jutting out: her once symbolic mysticism now holds only graphic
optimism, a pleasant hallmark of simplified form and bright
colours. Sasnal repackages ideology for an indiscriminate
consumer culture. Painting becomes a ritual of purification
through aesthetics, which can sell even the most frightening
of concepts. |