Rosalind Wheeler Man with Tongue Out 1 by Young & Battaglia and Kirin Young
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Parody wall art is not how we imagine 17th-century Dutch artist Michel Jansz van Miereveld envisioned his oil on canvas painting of Sir John Borlase from 1625 being used but graphic artist Kirin Young who is one of our more prominent exponents of tongue in cheek art has given it a twist. The wall art takes traditional pre-18th-century portraits and keeps their grand formal aesthetic but injects some fun by the simple use of poking the tongue out. Man with Tongue Out 1 shows sir John Borlase, general of the ordnance and governor of Ireland, sitting for a stern and sober portrait. The sobriety of the background further emphasises this but all this seriousness and temperance is quickly diminished by the tongue.
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