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May 21, 2021

(Lockdown time) "Venus Donut"

Koryashkin Alexander
Technique
Acrylic on paper
Dimensions
100 × 71 cm
Year
2021

A grey classical Venus de Milo statue stands in a shadowed studio where a cartoon Homer Simpson head floats above a pink donut in a beam of light.

Style
Surrealism
Mood
Playful
Themes
Animal · Fantasy · Interior · Nude
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About this work

An interior resembling a sculptor's studio holds a full-scale copy of the Venus de Milo alongside other broken classical torsos and column fragments, lit from two hanging purple pendant lamps that cast a diagonal yellow beam across the room. Within that beam floats a flat cartoon Homer Simpson head, a cartoon dog and cat sit together on a stool at left, and a large pink sprinkle-covered donut rests on the floor.

The statues and studio are painted in muted greys and browns with soft realistic shading, while the cartoon figures and donut are flat and brightly saturated, deliberately clashing in style. The contrast between somber academic sculpture and glossy pop-cartoon intrusions gives the scene a wry, playful visual joke.

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