Gorgon
Oil on Canvas
4×5′
“Gorgon”, emulates the artist Caravaggio’s composition & lighting by referencing and “contemporizing” the subject matter from his painting The Crowning with Thorns. In Gorgon the tattooist is actually branding the subject with a Caravaggio image. The Medusa head (or Gorgon) on his shoulder gives homage to the artist and acts as an “inside joke” or a direct clue referencing the original painting.