Random pic 11 July 2024
Animal Spirit (pink) 2016, Grayson Perry (b. 1960) https://flic.kr/p/2pTVyJWAnimal Spirit (pink) 2016, Grayson Perry (b. 1960); Etching with chine collé (two superimposed pieces of paper, glued together)Although best known for his ceramics, Grayson Perry is also an accomplished printmaker. The fantastical beast in this etching - half-bear and half-bull - embodies the irrationality at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis. The beast's tangled innards allude to the ancient theory of the four humours, in which emotions or faculties were located in different organs. As Perry notes of the male-dominated financial sector, 'There seemed to be an idea ... the market was entirely rational but we found out in the crash that it was just as prone to emotional weather as any human system.
Perry printed the etching on different coloured papers. The use of pink paper here imitates the colour of the Financial Times, Britain's leading business newspaper.(Gift of Charles Booth-Clibborn, 2018 to Somerset House. Text from SomersetHouse. )
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