An oil painting that lampoons art and American lifestyles that are exported to the rest of the world in the name of free trade, On On the left side of a painting I placed the School of Athens (Aristotle, Socrates, Plato), on the right side I placed a father and son of the fifties (a couple of yokels) admiring a can of oil. The painting is built on hinges so that it folds in the middle and becomes portable. Sort of a laptop, takehoma sack painting. On the "School of Athens" side of the painting by Raphael, I substitute Superman for Apollo and Batman for Dionysius. I also place modern figures in the roles of the old philosophers. It is a color by numbers version of the original painting which implies we are a superficial copycat civlization interested in only making pretty things that we can consume and throw away.
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