Annette Messager takes inspiration from the humble, mundane, and domestic daily life of women, but also popular art and outsider art. Psychoanalysis and childhood are also areas that provided inspiration. With Love and Death, she provides a moving diptych bringing love, life and art into dialogue. This acrylic wash is gracious and elegant, showing dark humour, and staging Eros and Thanatos face to face in a cruel, unequal game. It depicts Cupid, painting death through a play on mirrors, death in turn paints the child, god of love. Her sensitive interpretation works on evoking ancient
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