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Fragonard
In this vivid and unsettling painting, Cal Fraser offers a bold, ironic reimagining of the European Rococo tradition — drawing inspiration from the works of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, yet replacing lightness and flirtation with urgency and decay. A red horse charges across a fractured dreamscape; a rider throws up his arm, books and objects fly, a snarling dog races ahead, and fragments of cultural symbols — columns, masks, tiles, and theater props — litter the ground.
As in other chapters of A Short History of the Continent, Fraser unpacks the collapse of European identity, interrogating its violent legacy through grotesque figuration and a riot of acidic, hallucinatory color. The scene feels both theatrical and prophetic — part satire, part requiem, part fever dream.
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In this vivid and unsettling painting, Cal Fraser offers a bold, ironic reimagining of the European Rococo tradition — drawing inspiration from the works of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, yet replacing lightness and flirtation with urgency and decay. A red horse charges across a fractured dreamscape; a rider throws up his arm, books and objects fly, a snarling dog races ahead, and fragments of cultural symbols — columns, masks, tiles, and theater props — litter the ground.
As in other chapters of A Short History of the Continent, Fraser unpacks the collapse of European identity, interrogating its violent legacy through grotesque figuration and a riot of acidic, hallucinatory color. The scene feels both theatrical and prophetic — part satire, part requiem, part fever dream.
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