Melancholia (requin), 2019

The artwork pledge

• DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
• CLIMATE ACTION
• LIFE BELOW WATER
• LIFE ON LAND
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Tags

• Art History
• Capitalism
• Collage
• Engraving
• Europe
• Figurative
• France
• Francis Bacon
• Glass
• Installation
• John Heartfield
• Lille
• Mythology
• Oil Painting
• Pablo Picasso
• Painting
• Panel Painting
• Paris
• Power Structure
• Primitivism
• Rembrandt
• Social
• Surrealism
• Urban
• Violence
• Watercolor

About this artwork

This portrait of a man covered in a brown liquid, conveys a feeling of loneliness. The character’s eyes are similar to George Washington’s eyes in the one dollar bill. A shark swims over the character’s head, heightening the scene’s absurdity and its surrealness.

Damien Deroubaix is a French artist working with a variety of media such as painting, collage, sculpture, installation and more. His artistic practice revisits art history’s heritage and combines it with current political events, this approach enables him to create subtle works full of meaning and with different layers of understanding.

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