Description:
Female; male
Label Text:
Throughout the 1940s and '50s, French labored on a series of 49 paintings and drawings in which he ambitiously sought to define the whole of human nature and experience. He devised seven main categories and within each category he designated seven subjects. Crime is registered in the category "man," a nebulous category dealing primarily with social phenomenon (language, dress, and government, for example, are other subjects within "man"). French's drawing Crime employs an extremely opaque allegory, exemplifying the extent to which he elaborated his already obscure, symbolist style.
MD, 2013
Tags:
allegory; figures; realism Subjects:
Allegory; figures (representations); Crayon drawing; Graphite Link to share this object record:
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