The Artist Project: John Currin

"It sets up rules and then contradicts them, and exists in a paradoxical state of real and unreal."
John Currin reflects on Ludovico Carracci's "The Lamentation" in this episode of The Artist Project-an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.
About the Artist
John Currin, born in 1962, is an American figurative painter.