This is typical. Absolutely typical… of the kind of..
2008
22×24
Oil on linen
Painting Notes:
1. Mantegna: Lamentation over the Dead Christ, 1490
2. Marcel Proust deathbed photo, Man Ray and Elmer Batters instruction sheet
3. Emily Dickinson, daguerreotype, 1848
4. Thomas Eakins: John Biglin in a Single Scull, 1874
5. R. Crumb & P. P. Rubens: Satyrs and Nymphs, Prado, 1636-8. Airboy
6. Rothko Chapel with worshippers, Cy Twombly with kosher chickens.
7. Otto Dix: Shell Craters, 1917.
8. U. S. soldiers using dogs to abuse a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison, Baghdad 2003.
9. Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe: “Hello Meth Lab with a View.”
10. Susan Sontag, 1974.
11. Jean Paul Sartre
12. Simone de Beauvoir
13. John Cleese [above: the death of Craig Ewert in an assisted suicide 2006. Could be seen on British television]
14. Henry Geldzahler
15. Immanuel Kant
16. Titian: Diana and Acteon, Duke of Sutherland Collection, 1556-9.
17. Anthony Blunt