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SlideshowHousepainter II
1984
180.0 x 64.0 cm
Duane Hanson (1925 – 1996)
Duane Hanson (1925-1996) was a hyperrealist sculptor known for lifelike, life-size figures of everyday people. His work explores themes of consumerism, social class, and the human condition with striking realism and subtle commentary.
Housepainter II is recognizable as a working-class American, an everyman. At the same time, he stands in the heroic stance of the classical Greek sculpture the Doryphoros, or the Spear Bearer, by Polykleitos (ca. 440 b.c.). Hanson deliberately draws on this paradox to highlight a solitary moment of physical labor as ennobled. The uncanny hyperrealism of Hanson’s painter is intended to inspire both empathy and uneasiness, suggesting a broader cultural malaise. This representation of a black man painting a wall white, dressed in an old ripped shirt with multicolored streaks of paint, is intentionally provocative and symbolically charged, pointing critically to politically urgent issues of racial and economic inequality.
O tomto díle
- Název: Housepainter II
- Autor: Duane Hanson
- Rok: 1984
- Původní rozměry: 180.0 x 64.0 cm
- Stav autorského práva: Chráněno autorským právem
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