Art Works > Paper Kingdoms. Gerry Gleason. 2012. Selected mixed media works on paper 2009.

Paper Kingdoms, World Economic Meltdown, Sub Prime, Gerry Gleason.
Codding The People.
Gerry Gleason. 2009.
Mixed media on paper
75.5x56cm.

Over the years I have admired the works of the German painter Max Beckmann, particularity his great triptychs,drawing on Greek myths and fusing them to his own time. I have also admired his dry point etchings and b&w drawings, with at times their starkness. He lived through a very difficult period of history, but kept his moral compass. I think the image is self explanatory.