by King Felix
The work of John Currin. His satirical paintings often present the beautiful as grotesque, using subtle compositions characteristic of a different era of painting. This allusion to the renaissance style helps make the the viewer expect beauty from his paintings, only to be isappointed by the weirdness they inevitably find. Currin's pieces also contain sexual imagery, and tend to make fun of social conduct and status. They stand as a haunting, and sometimes disgusting pastiche of human behaviour.
