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Donald Cameron

           
           
     

Donald Cameron explores in paint the unexpected beauty within mass media depictions of violence. News, advertising and film desensitize viewers to violence by way of spectacular beauty and entertainment. Similarly painters like Jacques-Louis David have long aestheticized violence for a variety of purposes throughout history. Cameron's paintings take media trends to their absurdist logical conclusion by rendering death itself beautiful. They complicate viewers' visceral and intellectual responses to imagery, and situate current trends in a lengthy art-historical tradition.