GERALD LAING

Look Mickey

Catalogue raisonné no. 675

Artist's CR 615

2005

Kinkell

Oil on canvas

72 x 64 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Spike Gallery, New York, 2005
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• Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007
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Selected Citations and Comments

This painting refers to Roy Lichtenstein’s first essay in cartoon-based art. In his painting, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse are fishing. Donald Duck has accidentally hooked his own rear end and is excitedly tugging at his rod – hence the caption… I have treated the soldier and the prison as though they were an anodyne part of a Disney film; perhaps Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Iraqi is shown in the second-hand but subjective reality of half-tone.

Gerald Laing, 'Artist's Notes on War Paintings', unpublished manuscript, 2004

Related Artworks
• Study for Look Mickey, Oil on canvas, 2005, 673
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