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ArchiveMulti-talented artist Marilyn Manson, legendary for the cult status of his music career and persona, has simultaneously been creating a large and remarkable body of painting over the past two decades. Just as Manson’s lyrics are provocative, driving the expressive form of music to its limits, the artist’s paintings, though aesthetically pleasing, play with the grotesque and confront the viewer with the dark side of the American Dream – its obsessions and pitfalls.
Looking at the works, one enters the artist’s deep, haunted world and his existential exploration of the human condition. (Maureen Sullivan)
“His subjects are consistent with his bizarre and morbid image: disease, mutilation, addiction, homicide.” (David Galloway)
Other works allude to Manson’s own angst, as in “Green Whore of Love (series I),” “I’ve got my arm around no one,” and “The man who eats his fingers” or “Masquerade”.
 Marilyn Manson, Masquerade, 2000, 76 x 56 in, Watercolor |
