Wilhelm Sasnal - Contemporary Artists

Portrait

Wilhelm Sasnal, Portrait The Saatchi Gallery
 

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.
 
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