Artist:

George Condo (born 1957) is an American contemporary artist born in Concord, New Hampshire, and now working primarily in New York. His practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture and prints, and he has been an important figure in restoring painting to the center of contemporary art since the 1980s. Hauser & Wirth's biography notes that he studied art history and music theory at the University of Massachusetts Lowell before moving to New York, where he worked in print production at Andy Warhol's studio.

Condo entered New York's East Village art scene early in his career, closely connecting with the energy of American contemporary art in the 1980s. The New Museum notes that he arrived in New York in 1980 and quickly became part of the East Village scene. This background matters: his work blends echoes of classical painting with street culture, comics, popular culture and psychological theater.

His style is often called “Psychological Cubism.” Put simply, rather than painting a single, stable person as a traditional portrait would, he compresses a person’s multiple emotions, distorted thoughts, sense of humor, anxiety, and sense of absurdity into one face. His figures therefore often have multiple faces and expressions: they look human, yet also like monsters, or creatures born from a mixture of classical portraiture, Picasso, cartoon characters, and psychological states.

Louisiana's product description aptly characterizes Condo's style as 'Picasso meets Bugs Bunny': he mixes the language of art-historical masters with American Pop Art, cartoons, humor and distortion. This description quickly conveys his distinctive quality to a broad audience: neither merely cute nor simply serious, but a hybrid of high art and grotesque cartoon imagery.

Condo's work frequently addresses unreality, madness, humor, paranoia, anxiety and the disorder of modern society. Louisiana's product description also notes how his work makes us aware of the world's complex, intense and uncontrollable manifestations, connecting with contemporary debates about truth and falsehood. His paintings are thus more than strange faces; they closely reflect contemporary states of mind.

Poster size: W: 59.6*84cm

Original poster from an art museum

Also available in a large size: 83.9 x 117.8 cm.

Mythological Figures, which may also be rendered as Mythic Figures, is a 2018 work by George Condo.

This poster is also connected to the Louisiana exhibition George Condo: The Way I Think. Held in 2017/18, the exhibition was part of the Louisiana on Paper series and marked the first presentation of Condo's work in Scandinavia at the time. Louisiana's product page notes that the exhibition presented Condo's works on paper from 1974 onward, including 130 works and 223 sketchbooks, highlighting his longstanding challenge to the traditional notion that drawing is merely subordinate to painting.

The point of Mythological Figures is not to depict a specific figure from Greek mythology, but to create an image that resembles both a mythological figure and a modern grotesque portrait. Condo’s figures are usually not real people, but characters assembled from art history, comics, states of mind, memory, and imagination. Artsy’s introduction to the exhibition at Louisiana also notes that Condo mixes elements from the Old Masters, Pop art, and cartoons, distorting and reworking them in ways that are humorous, grotesque, and even a little eerie.

This work can be understood as one of Condo's characteristic “psychological portraits”: the figure in the image does not have a single personality but embodies multiple emotions at once. It may seem comical, anxious, eccentric, arrogant, vulnerable, and even a little out of control, all at the same time. The work therefore feels like an inner drama: rather than depicting a person's outward appearance, it portrays a complex psychological state.

From a home-display perspective, this work has a strong presence. It is neither as quiet as pure abstraction nor as formal as traditional portraiture; instead, it has striking visual tension and sparks conversation. It suits modern spaces with a strong sense of art collecting and design, especially living rooms, studios, gallery walls, or bolder interior styles. It immediately gives a space an air of “I know a thing or two about contemporary art,” with even a touch of mischievous humor.

Original poster; size and framing options are listed above.

George Condo (born 1957) is an American contemporary artist born in Concord, New Hampshire, and now working primarily in New York. His practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture and prints, and he has been an important figure in restoring painting to the center of contemporary art since the 1980s. Hauser & Wirth's biography notes that he studied art history and music theory at the University of Massachusetts Lowell before moving to New York, where he worked in print production at Andy Warhol's studio.

Condo entered New York's East Village art scene early in his career, closely connecting with the energy of American contemporary art in the 1980s. The New Museum notes that he arrived in New York in 1980 and quickly became part of the East Village scene. This background matters: his work blends echoes of classical painting with street culture, comics, popular culture and psychological theater.

His style is often called “Psychological Cubism.” Put simply, rather than painting a single, stable person as a traditional portrait would, he compresses a person’s multiple emotions, distorted thoughts, sense of humor, anxiety, and sense of absurdity into one face. His figures therefore often have multiple faces and expressions: they look human, yet also like monsters, or creatures born from a mixture of classical portraiture, Picasso, cartoon characters, and psychological states.

Louisiana's product description aptly characterizes Condo's style as 'Picasso meets Bugs Bunny': he mixes the language of art-historical masters with American Pop Art, cartoons, humor and distortion. This description quickly conveys his distinctive quality to a broad audience: neither merely cute nor simply serious, but a hybrid of high art and grotesque cartoon imagery.

Condo's work frequently addresses unreality, madness, humor, paranoia, anxiety and the disorder of modern society. Louisiana's product description also notes how his work makes us aware of the world's complex, intense and uncontrollable manifestations, connecting with contemporary debates about truth and falsehood. His paintings are thus more than strange faces; they closely reflect contemporary states of mind.

Poster size: W: 83.9 x H: 117.8 cm

Mythological Figures, which may also be rendered as Mythic Figures, is a 2018 work by George Condo.

This poster is also connected to the Louisiana exhibition George Condo: The Way I Think. Held in 2017/18, the exhibition was part of the Louisiana on Paper series and marked the first presentation of Condo's work in Scandinavia at the time. Louisiana's product page notes that the exhibition presented Condo's works on paper from 1974 onward, including 130 works and 223 sketchbooks, highlighting his longstanding challenge to the traditional notion that drawing is merely subordinate to painting.

The point of Mythological Figures is not to depict a specific figure from Greek mythology, but to create an image that resembles both a mythological figure and a modern grotesque portrait. Condo’s figures are usually not real people, but characters assembled from art history, comics, states of mind, memory, and imagination. Artsy’s introduction to the exhibition at Louisiana also notes that Condo mixes elements from the Old Masters, Pop art, and cartoons, distorting and reworking them in ways that are humorous, grotesque, and even a little eerie.

This work can be understood as one of Condo's characteristic “psychological portraits”: the figure in the image does not have a single personality but embodies multiple emotions at once. It may seem comical, anxious, eccentric, arrogant, vulnerable, and even a little out of control, all at the same time. The work therefore feels like an inner drama: rather than depicting a person's outward appearance, it portrays a complex psychological state.

From a home-display perspective, this work has a strong presence. It is neither as quiet as pure abstraction nor as formal as traditional portraiture; instead, it has striking visual tension and sparks conversation. It suits modern spaces with a strong sense of art collecting and design, especially living rooms, studios, gallery walls, or bolder interior styles. It immediately gives a space an air of “I know a thing or two about contemporary art,” with even a touch of mischievous humor.