This is why I so love Mark Tansey. A car formerly hurtling through space obeys the sign. If I could only write "done" and make it so.Tansey creates his images by laying a mid-tone down evenly across an area of the canvas and then adds or subtracts pigment.
This guy is a genius, but way too studied for today's market. The painting is from 1986.
The title also references a short book by philosopher Roland Barthes. This is what I would love to know about Tansey: is this image a send-up, a repudiation, a mocking, an affirmation, or a free-form riff on Barthes?
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