Classic Victor Castillo painting combining humor inspired by vintage animations and Orwellian social criticism
We Were All To Be Kings IV
Archival Pigment Print on 290gsm Moab Fine Art Paper
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered
32 x 40 inch (101.6 x 81.3 cm)
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"The artist describes the title painting We Were All To Be Kings: a king eating alone … a table with a feast … all around animals watching; the animals are angry because they have realized that they are food for slaughter. In each of the large paintings, Castillo notes that the protagonists are stealing from each other. Evoking George Orwell’s Animal Farm, it is class war between rich and poor and a criticism of capitalism that Castillo’s vibrant and comic painting ultimately portrays," from the release about the exhibition.
Read more about it in the newsprint from the artist's archives —