George Condo

"Condo has been fascinated with portraiture for over twenty years. Recently he has used the genre to question the authority of traditional groups such as the family and the church...Condo's sphere of reference is vast from, Picasso and Philip Guston to Velazquez, cartoons to thirft store art." Mullins, Charlotte, 'Painting People', Thames and Hudson, London, 2006

I like the humour in Condo's work, and also how he can make serious references to artists gone before him, and to traditional ideas surrounding religion and family etc, while still maintaining lighthearted cartoonesque feeling.