The Problem With Love by David Avery

The Problem With Love by David Avery

The Problem With Love

David Avery

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Title

The Problem With Love

 
Artist

David Avery

  1952 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1992  
Technique
etching 
Image Size
5 3/4 x 3 3/16" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
II 7/35 
Annotations
numbered, lower left; titled, lower center 
Reference
 
Paper
Gutenberg Laid 
State
 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
DA122 
Price
$350.00 
Description

David Avery’s work often confronts the human condition with equal parts darkness and humor, always seeking out the balance of the two. As well, he uses a deceptively classical style, as if to set up the viewer to expect a harmless ex libris found in a Cambridge library, when in fact each work is a small and engrossing story on its own.

In this etching, Avery pokes fun at the business of love, rendering a blinded, piggish Cupid en route to the heart through the figurative- and literal- arterial mechanisms of the heart. Some viewers may swiftly recognize the pitfalls of this oft-welcomed mythical beast and wish to swat him away, while others, blind themselves, welcome him with open arms. The strength of Avery’s work lay in his technical precision in both technique and cheekiness.

 
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