G. Cougnaud

Giant Sadistic Laughing Devil with Hellfire and Tiny Humans

1946

Will good ultimately triumph over evil? Or is it a perpetual tug of war? WPA Artist Leonard Lopez paints a complex figural work addressing the theme of "the fight between good and evil. It's reminiscent of the medieval paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, where demons evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. In this painting, a closeup of a young female’s erotic buttock fills the horizontal space. Engulfing the sexy nude body is a dense array of Lilliputian-like figures. The top third of the composition is crammed with floating, sexy, nude female bodies. The bottom part of the painting features a cross-section of people engaged in their diverse jobs. Mounted on the nude cheek, Artist Leo Lopez paints a victorious Red Devil with a trident. He’s holding a wealthy man in a tuxedo upside down. The supernatural powers of the Devil's red forked tail extend beyond its normal length and, like a tentacle from a sea monster, entangles many of the characters that represent society. To the extreme center right Lopez paints a Winged Venus dressed...

Erik Thor Sandberg paints a fantastical scene that features nude, grotesque combatants engaged in a bloody battle on a surreal, pink, stage-like surface. Some of the painting's subje...

This lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Miró" at lower right corner. It is also hand numbered in pencil 199 from the edition of 400, at the lower left cor...

As Bhatt alludes in the title, this work draws meaning from John Milton’s paradise lost. While the title may seem contradictory according to our conventional ideas of joy versus horr...