Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?
@ Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
On view through Sunday, December 12th
Chicago-born and educated artist Leon Golub (1922–2004) is known for his provocative large-scale paintings addressing issues of power and violence and a figurative style inspired by a diverse iconography, from classical sculpture to journalism and mass media photography.
Live & Die Like a Lion? is the first major museum exhibition to focus on drawings from the last five years of Golub’s life, as declining health prevented him from working on large canvases. With bold text, erotic imagery, and depictions of human figures, lions, dogs, and mythic creatures, the small but dramatic and colorful works bring the themes of Golub’s career to a more intimate level.
The exhibition also includes the only existing unfinished Golub painting as well as examples of the artist’s source materials from a variety of magazines and publications.
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