Oil painting
The German Dominant
Original title: Le dominant d’allemand
A triptych: three busts on three plinths, a piano, a tyre and a boot.
On the left, against yellow, a romantic head sits on a keyboard lettered “Beethoven” among the instruments. In the centre, against red, an industrialist is mounted on a wheel with motor cars at his feet. On the right, in darkness, a forelock and a small moustache ride a jackboot that is crushing a village. On every plinth a little figure is climbing a ladder. Music, machinery, war: three ways of being on top.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 150 × 100 cm
- Year
- 2005
- Collection
- Oil painting
- Status
- Unique piece
About the series
Each canvas in this cycle starts from a title — an expression, a brand, a slogan — and treats it as a subject for classical painting. The result is a chronicle of contemporary public life, in which power, money and belief appear as characters.
