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Glenn Ligon's Condition Report

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Glenn Ligon’s artwork is both dark and colorful. Ligon displays artwork about both sides of himself, the African American side and the homosexual side. His paintings examine and explore cultural and social identity and help reveal how the history of America has molded our society today. After observing some of Ligon’s works, I can say that he can either be simple or tangent off into something deep and meaningful. For example, in “Condition Report”, there is only “I am a man” stenciled onto a blank white canvas, then there is another one of his artworks that has more depth such as “Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background)” which has “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background”

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