This is a study painted on masonite, about 36" x 48", from around 1991. Later I made a much bigger version on canvas - and had to use a mop to paint the background! The image is based on a 1950's paperback cover for a homophobic book called "The Homosexual Generation" (the blurb expanded this to "the sick, sick, sick homosexual generation").
I was interested in the image because of the confrontation between the perfectly coiffed and realistically painted foreground figure and the "abstract expressionist" background, and also because of the striking way the meaning of the term "sick generation" had changed with the intervening advent of AIDS.
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