Vincent Devine | Midas Lucy Sparrow Meal Deal The Beatles reference carries its

The Beatles reference carries its original weight: a call to unity

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As the first execution of the concept — the work in which the artist resolved the formal and technical decisions that all subsequent versions followed — it occupies a unique position in the series

Vincent Devine | Midas Lucy Sparrow Meal Deal The Beatles reference carries itsVincent Devine Midas Original contemporary painting Midas takes one of the most resonant myths in Western culture the Phrygian king whose wish that everything he touched would turn to gold was granted and then became his curse as the subject for a work of contemporary painting. Devine's engagement with mythology runs throughout his surrealist series, finding in ancient stories the most direct available language for contemporary psychological states.