George Condo’s contemporary cubist and imaginary compositions draw on the work of famous twentieth-century artists—Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Jackson Pollock. In Paper Faces, cartoonish figures blur and dominate the scene, presenting different emotional states and reflecting the chaos of everyday life. Condo has described his approach through the terms “psychological cubism,” which attempts to capture a subject’s multiplicity, and “artificial realism,” which presents an American interpretation of European art history and Old Master painting.
Condo studied Art History and Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts Lowell before moving to New York City and working as a studio assistant to Andy Warhol at the Factory. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Italy; the Tate Modern, London; and the New Museum, New York.
