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...sketches in ink, pencil and watercolor reveal the artist’s working process. Condo says they’re for the students for his intermediate painting course next semester...
...imagination of the artist George Condo, Yankee Doodle has a green cape, a blue leg of blown-glass and holds a carrot...
...Condo is a seasoned artist and painter in the New York art world, known for imaginative portraits inspired by themes taken from such diverse styles as Surrealism, Pop Art, Baroque and Renaissance art. He comes to Harvard with both an exhibition and a surprise: he will be teaching a course in the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department in the spring...
...Condo says inspiration for the paintings came from a recent show on Manet and Velasquez at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He was interested in how the two great artists compared to each other, and his own characters, Condo says, are “composite figures from memory...
...want the students to learn working from memory,” Condo says. He says that there is much work done already with reliance on external source material. “But one shouldn’t deprive oneself [from the work],” he says. Condo jokingly recommends as prerequisite to his course “heavy background in philosophy and good technical skills” and especially recommends Heidegger’s “Early Greek Thinking...