Noah Becker
The Valley, 2020
Acrylic on Canvas
121.9 x 91.4 cm
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A figure after Velázquez commands the center of this composition, lording over model houses of unusual size while pedestrians stroll casually through the uncanny valley. An odd menagerie of figures...
A figure after Velázquez commands the center of this composition, lording over model houses of unusual size while pedestrians stroll casually through the uncanny valley. An odd menagerie of figures is assembled, including an array of farm animals and an anatomically suggestive kiwi bird. Land barons speculate on the value of this bizarre kingdom as they survey the rolling piling up between the ticky-tacky buildings bordering this surreal domain