The Fall
Before the Fall…
Can we consider painting is dead? I am not certain.
In the current era of absurdist humor post-pandemic and political upheaval.
There is a certain comfort in finding humour in the oddity of the world. This was the same case almost a hundred years ago from the post-war era of Newman. He had exhibited a large stretch of canvas covered in brilliant red with stripes of blue and yellow, titled, ‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue?’.
It might sound like a challenge. Perhaps it is.
It certainly was to a man with a box cutter in 1968 and slashed it across the painting. The reaction was the answer.
‘The Fall’ is my take on the current absurdist era.