(Adam,
the unloved son)
(Detail)
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The
professor was a megalomaniac. The most supremely arrogant
person I think that I have ever met. All of his paintings
were self portraits. He would do a silkscreen from a photo
and then carefully work the photo with an complex technique.
I
decided that I would work differently in his studio before
leaving for good. I had been employed as a "studio assistant".
I was in fact much more than an assistant. I was a collaborator
in the deepest sense of the word insofar as the greatest part
of the detail in the venerable professor's famous paintings
were painting with great care by a Turkish student.(Adam,
the unloved son)
On a large painting, I started to camouflage letters.
Even while talking to the professor, I painted letters on
the bricks depicted in the painting under his very eyes! A
young sailor is being tested, playing billiards in front of
a grand jury comprised of Jesus and the Apostles.
The picture is inspired directly from
da Vinci's "The Last Supper". The young man
represents professor Hausner himself and Vienna is
in the background, melting bizarrely into a sky of green and
orange.
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