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| As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War
Leon Golub |
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| Leon Golub is a gentle and humorous man whose paintings are brutal exposes of injustice and the abuse of power. It was inevitable that he would take up the war in Vietnam as well as the conflict in El Salvador. When art in America was cool, remote and minimal, Golub's paintings about predation and the primitive, base nature of the human race were largely ignored. In the past few years the art world has caught up with him, and his exposes of unsettling realities are internationally applauded.
"The war got into my work...through a long-standing interest in ancient and primitive art. I was looking for something raw and irregular with residual, implacable, human conditions. I wanted these emotions to be highly eroded and warn down." |
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