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THE QUESTION:
a series of paintings & drawings
by Warren Criswell
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I didn't intend for this to be
a series. It was just that one image spawned another, which spawned
another, etc., in an image-breeding frenzy that went on for several
years before I was able to break out of it. It was apparently
a conflation of several sources. I know I had been reading Sartre's
"The Question" in Being and Nothingness and
Dostoyevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor," a chapter in
The Brothers Karamazov, and I had surely been looking
at El Greco's portrait of Cardinal Inquisitor Niño de
Guevara. But I interpreted all this in terms of the döppelganger:
a kind of Jeckel-and-Hyde, superego-id pair played by me as both
the Grand Inquisitor and his prisoner. All this is exhaustively
elaborated upon in my 1995 essay "The Egg & the I."
Warren Criswell, 2013
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The Question, 1991, oil on linen, 36 x 48 inches |
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" In order to transcend himself
he must break down that which he needs in order to live. Like
Lear he must throw off all his 'cultural lendings' and stand
naked in the storm of life."
.............................................Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
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The Storm, 1992,
oil on linen,
48 x 36 inches |
The Cardinal Reading,
1992, acrylic &
conté crayon on bargasse paper,
22 x 30 inches |
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The Kiss, 1992,
oil on linen,
48 x 36 inches
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Table Dancer, 1992,
acrylic & oil on
paper, 28 x 23 inches
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Two Manikins, 1992,
mixed media
on paper, 25 x 32 inches
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The Diver, 1993,
oil on panel,
59 x 44 inches |
The Temptation,
1991, charcoal, pastel & spray enamel on gessoed sheet, 41
x 31 inches
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The Trespasser, 1993, oil on linen, 60 x 48 inches |
The Cardinal on the Grate, 1993, oil
on acylic on paper, 36 x 31 inches |
Study for "Highway 61", 1993, acrylic & conté on paper,
34 x 26 inches |
Highway 61, 1993,
oil on panel,
48 x 36 inches |
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Changing Woman,
1992, oil on linen, 48 x 36 inches
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The Animation,
1992, acrylic &
conte on paper, 34 x 30 inches
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All the King's Horses,
1992, oil on linen,
48 x 36 inches
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