La Nuit du Citron Musqué

Mario Avati

1992

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On a large piece of buff paper, two holes are cut out of the center, like eyes. A red thread is sewn around the opening of the holes, like eye lashes. The red thread loops down below the holes like a mouth and the needle is inserted into the paper. A second needle with red thread is inserted in the lower right quadrant.
Portrait of Isaac B. Singer, Raphael Soyer, color lithograph
Jesus Entering Jerusalem, Fred Webster, painted wood
This work was painted in animated marks that register as pattern and act to blur distinctions between the figures and their setting. Young has imposed compositional order through a stacked vertical arrangement that builds from urban structures to a row of elongated linear figures, a procession that does not so much carry the huge figure above them as celebrate his ascension into the mountains at the top of the image.