"Imagination Rules the World!" -Napoleon Bonaparte
Photographed and smaller scanned image of completed picture
Completed black and white ink drawing
Pablo's black and white body without colour or background
Prepatory pencil sketch of Pablo's reclining pose with ink sketch of background details.
Coronation of Napoleon painting overlayed upon Goethe image used for reference
Pablo is a politically and philosophically astute gentleman, dandy , romantic, socialite, and messianic populist revolutionary. To meet Pablo is to be struck by his intense admiration of the great populist Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as his commitment to lessening the burden of capitalism and securing the hearts of the people through a cult of personality. As native of Panama and a student in Texas, Pablo might be thought to be a man of two worlds. Yet Pablo's only true home lies in an undiluted vision of the future, in which the popular enthusiasm of bonapartism finds its truest expression in the majesty of European costume, pageantry, and royalty. In this caricature, I attempted to capture the visionary romanticism of Goethe, the dandyism of Oscar Wilde, and the monumental presence of a popular leader whose ideals and inspiration descends from the heavens rather than the city of man.
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