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Artist behind Kanye West's MBDTF album cover.
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American contemporary artist George Condo has been cited as taking inspiration from American caricature, Greek mythological characters, dark humor, and family portraits – all of which are evident in his bold creations, such as the artwork for Kanye West‘s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Here, Life+Times hands the pencil over to Mr. Condo and lets him wax poetic on a selection of his works thus far.
“The Cloudmaker,” 1984
“Painted in the Canary Islands, on the run from New York. Thinking about Old Master Graffiti, simulated found paintings and jewels.”
“Red Antipodular Portrait,” 1996
“Out of your mind and onto the canvas. He just looks back and wants to know who you are. A peripheral being, sitting in the bleachers cheering in a molecular fantasy.”
“Miles Davis,” 1999
“I met him in the ’80s. Perhaps the greatest face ever seen and the sounds and compositions incomparable. Listening to the feelings influenced the way I paint. Paying tribute to the man here in one of the many pieces I’ve done in his honor.”
“The Cracked Cardinal,” 2004
“Cubist face with an owl’s eye staring back. Classical treatment, modernist clash of styles, a smash up composition.”
“The Cave Woman,” 2006
“Just for the hell of it I wanted to paint the sound of her screaming.”
“Tumbling Heads,” 2006
“A psychodramatic portrait of one who is many and all his thoughts. Multiplicity.”
“Elastic Figures,” 2010
“These are my new works, just plain improvisation on the human figure and consciousness. They are about freedom of line and color and blur the line between drawing and painting.”
“Green and Purple Composition,” 2010
“Again, these are about drawing and painting being the same thing, and beauty and horror walking hand-in-hand.”
“Untitled,” 2010
“This is a kind of smash up of butlers and their mistresses, all in some kind of a formal portrait mode, stepping into our mental space looking to serve the viewer.”
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http://lifeandtimes.com/my-beautiful...wisted-fantasy
& His work with Kanye:
I studied art for a little bit and like stuff like this so I just wanted to share. 
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