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Large oil painting by Simon Schrikker .
Comes from the Pulpo series
Schrikker's works are a struggle between form and content, between matter and image.
His animals, often dogs, sharks and octopuses, literally seem to come out of the paint.
The medium is part of the message.
Since the animals Schrikker depicts are often associated with danger and fear, there is a certain aggression in his images.
This aggression returns in the painterly treatment of the surface.