Genius or kitsch? Controversial artist's exhibition opens: comments

quotegilbert

April 26, 2009, 15:14

response : genius AND kitsch ! Why ?
because George Condo expresses the inside side of the life by the way of humor and derision, by the style of Comics.
You may have some explanations to www.almanart.com, "zoom to"

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