Artwork details
- Medium : Oil, Lacquer on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 78.7x49.2in
About this artwork
The “Napoleon Cake” project combines the painting “Napoleon on the Imperial Throne” by the famous 19th century French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres with the idea that Napoleon is a layer cake. As a result, Ingres's painting was dismantled into layers, like a cake. But, despite all the irony, the Napoleon Cake project is about the birth, flourishing and dying of an empire.
Alexander Nekrashevich
Poland
Credentials
- Established Artist
- Works on commission
Alexander Nekrashevich, a graduate of the Republican Art School and the Belarusian Academy of Arts, masterfully engages with traditional media like oil on canvas, drawing on paper, and airbrush on aluminium. His techniques blend a playful postmodernist approach with the fluctuating aesthetics of metamodernism, oscillating between irony, sincerity, eclecticism, and purity. His art invites viewers into a thrilling emotional landscape, where enthusiasm and sarcasm, destruction and creation, coexist in vibrant harmony.