Study for Look Mickey 2005
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Study for Look Mickey
Catalogue raisonné no. 673
Artist's CR 614
2005
Kinkell
Oil on canvas
36 x 32 inches / 0 cm
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Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Kings College, Cambridge, 2005chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Galerie Salvador, Paris, 2005chevron_right
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Gerald Laing, 'Artist’s Notes on War Paintings', unpublished manuscript, 2004chevron_right
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 part of an anodyne Disney film; perhaps Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Iraqi is shown in the second-hand but subjective reality of half-tone.
, 'Artist's Notes on War Paintins', unpublished manuscript, 2004
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Look Mickey, Oil on canvas, 2005chevron_right