Allen Jones, R.A. (b. 1937)

'In the Guardians of the Secret (1943) Jackson Pollock depicts the act of painting itself to be a performance. Dose de Bizarrerie is one of a series of paintings in which I similarly refer to the stage as a motif. A horizontal line divides the canvas between the performance area above and the front row/orchestra below. In this particular picture the figures become dissolved into the painted gesture although figuration like a prompter is waiting in the 'wings'.'

(Allen Jones, October 2016)