Orientalist painters like Jean Leon Gerome, in the words of Edward Said, ‘represented the exotic east with a visual expression of sensuality, promise, terror, sublimity, idyllic pleasure and intense energy that had a life of its own’. The romance with the exotic comes in full circle when in the absence of other types of figurative visual imagery of the past, Orientalist paintings serve as an evocation of a lost era.
Detail: Acrylic on cotton on aluminum 5″X7″