Two German Queens
Print, Political / Social, 70x100cm
Hand printed silk screen on canvas | Signed by Thomas Dellert and Rainer Johannes Laakso as XYZ
It is not the stereotype of Marilyn Monroe that Dellacroix is using as his inspiration. It is not some glamorous millionaire that he paints with flashy colors, like in his „We are all Queens” (1982) but an imprisoned Ulrike Meinhof with her arms stretched over her head, sawn together with Queen Silvia of Sweden. The difference is decisive. Here, you won’t find any of that flat unemotional and backward resting attitude that you usually find in so many American pop and neo-pop artists of today. No, Dellacroix is not only with his time, and he even goes further. He raises the already flashy color a few steps and applies it masterly on motives that forces us to reflection. Hi gives the color a meaning which goes beyond the decorative effect we know so well from Warhol. It becomes even more compelling in the work „Heroes of Tomorrow” 1979 based on the German Wanted Dead or Alive poster depicting the members of the Red Army Fraction: Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin. The terrorists, staring out towards the observer are not frightening and in black and white, but painted in flashy colors like if they were Rock Stars. The criticism against the Mickey Mouse-like common pop art images is strong and effective. The heroes of tomorrow in this picture are in a complete opposition to the heroes of the American glamour world, who had to pay a lot of money to be portrayed by Warhol.
It is not the stereotype of Marilyn Monroe that Dellacroix is using as his inspiration. It is not some glamorous millionaire that he paints with flashy colors, like in his „We are all Queens” (1982) but an imprisoned Ulrike Meinhof with her arms stretched over her head, sawn together with Queen Silvia of Sweden. The difference is decisive. Here, you won’t find any of that flat unemotional and backward resting attitude that you usually find in so many American pop and neo-pop artists of today. No, Dellacroix is not only with his time, and he even goes further. He raises the already flashy color a few steps and applies it masterly on motives that forces us to reflection. Hi gives the color a meaning which goes beyond the decorative effect we know so well from Warhol. It becomes even more compelling in the work „Heroes of Tomorrow” 1979 based on the German Wanted Dead or Alive poster depicting the members of the Red Army Fraction: Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin. The terrorists, staring out towards the observer are not frightening and in black and white, but painted in flashy colors like if they were Rock Stars. The criticism against the Mickey Mouse-like common pop art images is strong and effective. The heroes of tomorrow in this picture are in a complete opposition to the heroes of the American glamour world, who had to pay a lot of money to be portrayed by Warhol.
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