TitleFate Unraveled
Artist
Mark Greenwold
(American, b. 1942)
Date1996
MediumGouache and watercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet size: 13 3/8 x 19 1/2 in.
Mat size: 17 x 23 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, September 20, 2006
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number2006.23
Label TextGreenwold creates hyper-real scenes of violence and sexual transformation. These fantastic scenes often feature images of himself, friends and family. To create his small and tightly painted works the artist utilizes a tiny, triple zero watercolor brush. His technique harkens back to such Early Northern Renaissance masters as Jan and Hubert Van Eyck. In Fate Unraveled, Greenwold pictures himself on one knee being stabbed by an elderly man. Greenwold thinks of his “paintings as fictions: what could have happened, not what did happen.”
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