The Cruelty of the Father.
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Title |
The Cruelty of the Father. |
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Creator |
Salle, David (American painter, born 1952) |
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Date |
1983 |
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Cultural Context |
American
North American |
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Style/Period |
Postmodern
Contemporary |
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Subject |
Diptychs
Women
Nudes
Body parts
Feet
Heads (Anatomy)
Faces
Swimmers
Swimming pools
Outdoor furniture
Water |
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Description |
Oil and acrylic on canvas. “Salle has cultivated a very urbane way of representing stereotypes, taken from the mass media and the world of art, which has affinities with Jasper Johns’ early classicism, such as the Target with Boxes. Parts of the human body, usually the erogenous zones, are fragmented and recombined in a diptych as part of an enigmatic collage. The Cruelty of the Father, 1983, shows poses taken from ‘How to Draw’ manuals and mass-circulation magazines like Penthouse, overlaid with splotches of abstraction and a nervous map outline; this is then contrasted with the representation of a Joan Crawford head stuck unnaturally on top of the water, as if left there by an absent-minded swimmer.” (p.84) |
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Material |
Oil on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Oil paint (pigmented coating)
Acrylic paint
Paint
Canvas |
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Measurements |
75 x 100 in |
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Technique |
Painting (image-making)
Oil painting (technique) |
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Work Type |
Paintings
Oil paintings
Diptychs |
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Source |
Jencks, Charles. Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1987. (fig.3.21, p.[85]) |
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Rights |
Photo/illustration credit/reproduced in Jencks courtesy: Victor Smorgon Collection, Australia / Courtesy Larry Gagosian Gallery, LA. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 305-24.jpg |
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Rating |
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