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SUMMARY KEYWORDS feels, painting, piece, david, sally, acrylic, paintwork, shapely, blue stripe, lime green, salle, present, image, top, takata, lollipop, front, untitled, meme, encountering David Salle is a postmodernist who's probably closer to a pop artist than anything else. He tweeted a image of a new painting he did called Untitled. it's 2022. And it's flashe, acrylic and pencil on paper, which has been mounted to aluminum. But it also fully feels like David Sally has embraced meme culture. Because the image is of a shapely young woman looking back at a well built young gentleman. She's in this beautiful green dress, he's in a lime green tank top and looks like black jeans. But in between them is something interesting. It is a globule, the only way I can really put it, you can see the letters S E. And this sort of Pac Man like symbol, it kind of looks like you might want you might see on a lollipop, but it is 100% between them. But then again, there's more to the painting. There's this blue stripe of acrylic that goes across the top, and it actually passes in front of between the two of them, it looks like but in front of the man's head, and you see the back of his head. And it's he's got black hair, but there's this sort of like baldy spot, and you can see the blue through it. It's as if he's not really there. But he's there. Cuz she's looking at him. In the same way that we're looking at him. Only she's looking at the front part. The whole idea here seems to be a separation between two people who are looking at each other, but forced to look through a lens of a third thing that is present in the painting that we're not given much of. And it might be that those two are the only two who actually have anything of an idea of what this piece is between them. It doesn't seem to be created by them, it seems to be them encountering it, almost like a fence that they're looking over. It's a fascinating piece and it has this feeling of the classic you know, he's looking at this girl who's walking by and his girlfriend looks exasperated  at him for looking at her. Could well be but the whole thing feels as if it is a reference outside of itself, which is David Sally's real leisure domain, but honestly, it just feels as if he is leaning into the present. And the piece, you know the paintwork kind of feels like a Teppei Takata there's just this sense of paint to it. Something I don't usually sort of ascribe to David Salle works

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