
Robert Colescott
Composition #10 - Tumbling Figures and Modes, 1968
Acrylic on canvas
18 1/8 x 15 x 3/4 in (46 x 38.1 x 1.9 cm)
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Colescott appears in his artwork often, beginning in the 1970s, as an onlooker peering through windows, in the guise of various racial stereotypes (a crow, for example), or as a...
Colescott appears in his artwork often, beginning in the 1970s, as an onlooker peering through windows, in the guise of various racial stereotypes (a crow, for example), or as a character either replacing an original figure in or a new character inserted into a reinterpreted masterwork. In All is Right, Colescott has cast himself in the role of Jupiter (Zeus) in Jean-Auguste-Dominic Ingres’ neoclassical painting Jupiter and Thetis (1811). The nymph Thetis is replaced by buxom centurions. All is Right is related to a large acrylic painting titled ¡OH BYZANTiUM OH! (1978) and a small number of other works on paper exploring the same Ingres painting.