I can see why you collected these paintings. They are amazing on so many levels. I find myself reacting to the different elements and the mixture of styles that you almost never see together with excitement and wonder and amazement at how well it works together. It’s as if the artist is proving to the viewer that there is no such thing as subjects or rules that don’t go together.
These paintings are flawless in their execution. They are rendered by someone who has mastered all the rules of art to the point where he can break those rules quite deliberately in order to be true to his vision. He mixes soft beautiful and ethereal elements with harsh strong and sometimes jarring features. Delicate, almost feminine components with strong masculine themed subjects. It’s truly amazing to see this done so well. It’s exciting and gratifying and arresting.
I appreciate his use of Lucha Libre themes, symbols and icons with the animated death symbols of skulls and the undulation of the octopus-like appendages. I makes me remember the different relationship that people have with the theme of death in Mexico where I grew up and lived for 25 years. It’s not easy to explain or pin down the different approach to life and death, but Germs does it.
I also found your album cover very interesting and captivating with the band name also illustrated and integrated in symbolism that illustrates some negative elements of our industrial civilization.
I thoroughly enjoy looking at these! Thanks so much for posting them!
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