Leon Golub
Leon Golub (American, January 23, 1922–August 8,
2004) was a painter by trade. Golub was born and studied in Chicago, IL. He
received his
In the beginning of the 1980s, Golub shifted his focus toward depicting terrorism in various ways, from the oppressive government actions to metropolitan street violence. Torture, killing fields, bars, brothels, and chambers became his subjects and inspiration for work involving such motifs as racial inequality, violent aggression, oppression, exclusion, and gender ambiguity. The most notable works he created during this time wereInterrogation, Mercenaries, Horsing Around, and Riot.
From the 1990s until his death, Golub produced work using the illusionistic style, with some forms rather semi-visible, obtained from medieval manuscripts, ancient carvings, and modern graffiti. When he got older, he started to consider the mortality of man, and began to create work centered on loss, death, and separation themes. The work of Golub is showcased in solo displays around the world, including his 1991work World Wide, which was displayed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. For this work, Golub used a process that was repeated in expositions at various other museums, wherein he made the details and images in his paintings larger, used translucent pieces of vinyl as screen, and hung them so every viewer will clearly see them. Several group expositions represented Golub, who was among the small number of White artists who became part of Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (1994), displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The artist died on August 8, 2004.
What is
about and which problems talk about
It’s a series
of pictures where we can appreciate a critique of all events that happen in his
time for example abuse of authority oppression, violence and others
Representative
elements
Many of the
paintings are made with acrylic paint however we can find others with oil stick,
lack and ink
Many of the
canvas are linen but we can find some with paper, Bristol boar and vellum
Make use of
some technical mixed like ink-oil, ink-acrylic
Uses mostly dark
tones like: brown, black, green, red.
Sensations
produced by gallery
The only
sensation that I have its like staying in another edge where there was war
The painting
that I like is
Bite your
tongue, 2001, acrylic in linen, 221 x 388
I like this
painting because the title it’s perfect, represent all things that the government
want to do the society, they deprive for some way our freedom and if for some
we try to affect the interests of government we going to have a serious problem
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